United States v. Onumonu’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 43 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably United States v. Gaviria (1997), United States v. Gabriel (1997)
30 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 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on United States v. Dunnigan · Weiler v. United States · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Benner v. Ohio · Ford v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a light most favorable to the defendant;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“instruct[ ] the sentencing judge to resolve in favor of the defendant those conflicts about which the judge, after weighing the evidence, has no firm conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] district court [may] apply the obstruction of justice enhancement for perjury only if it finds that the elements of perjury are met.”
1 later decision 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.