Quintero-Barraza v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that evidence must be viewed “in the light most favorable to the government,” drawing all inferences and deciding all issues of credibility in the government’s favor
• “[I]f Congress uses a common-law term in a federal criminal statute without defining it, we must presume that Congress adopted the common-law definition of that term.”
• gun stored underneath change dish between front car seats during drug sale from car was not ‘used’ because it was- not fired, was not visible, and was not mentioned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. McVeigh
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-09-08· cited 303×
• United States of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. James Payton, AKA James Perkins, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1998-10-05· cited 134×
• United States v. Marcus Canady
  Second Circuit· 1997-09-24· cited 112×
• United States v. Grimes
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-06-08· cited 103×
• United States v. Sanchez
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-04-16· cited 100×
• United States v. George Dean Martin
  Second Circuit· 1998-07-02· cited 94×
• United States v. Thomas Tocco, Mario Ferranti Jack Ferranti
  Second Circuit· 1998-01-16· cited 87×
• United States v. Autumn Jackson, Boris Sabas, Also Known as Boris Shmulevich, and Jose Medina, Also Known as Yosi Medina
  Second Circuit· 1999-06-09· cited 73×
• United States v. Joseph Corona, III Lindsey McDonald
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-04-07· cited 70×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Coley QUINN, Defendant-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-10-03· cited 68×
• United States v. Sorrells
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-07-22· cited 67×
• United States v. Cleveland
  First Circuit· 1997-02-21· cited 64×
• United States v. Maurice Cooke
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-04-09· cited 61×
• United States v. Jane Doe (r.s.w.)
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-02-12· cited 53×
• United States v. Desimone
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-28· cited 53×
• United States v. Geraldo, Jose
  D.C. Circuit· 2001-11-27· cited 51×
• United States v. Juan R. Munoz, A/K/A John Doe 1
  Second Circuit· 1998-04-22· cited 41×
• United States v. Michael Labarbara, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1997-10-31· cited 40×
• United States v. Latik Allah, AKA Christopher Hamilton, AKA \Lye\ William Hamilton, AKA \Star\, AKA \Starpre\
  Second Circuit· 1997-11-12· cited 35×
• Hampton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-10-16· cited 29×