United States v. Gutierrez’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 169 · 1993
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Nevils (2010), United States v. Pappadopoulos (1995)
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Carnegie v. United States · Penson v. Ohio · Garber v. United States · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but warned: 35 Nonetheless, a trial court should not routinely admit this type of opinion testimony without carefully weighing the testimony's probative value against its possible prejudicial effect....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would tax credulity to assert that [the defendant] was sitting on top of a pistol without knowing of its presence, or that he just happened to be a passenger in an automobile equipped with a pistol for each passenger, and that he knew of nothing of that odd coincidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pri- or conviction,” the record reflects that the government never presented evidence as part of its case that, in fact, Hankins had been arrested and convicted of attempting to possess the assault rifle on March 17, 2001. However, Officer Kryszczuk’s testimony and Christmas’s cross-examination, when considered together, would have permitted the jury to conclude that Hankins sustained a prior conviction for attempted possession of the assault rifle on March 17, 2001. . "To prove constructive possession, the government must prove a sufficient connection between the defendant and the contraband to support the inference that the defendant exercised dominion and control over the firearms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.