United States v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 209 · 1993
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Cantrell (2006)
66 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Stinson v. United States · United States v. Sanchez-Lopez · United States v. Restrepo · United States v. Wing Fook Lui · United States v. Belden
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elements and acts cited in the count of the conviction.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any participant who is less culpable than most other participants, but whose role could not be described as minimal.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a finding that [defendant] carried a substantial amount of PCP would foreclose a minimal participant adjustment,”
5 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.