United States v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 360 · 1998
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Washington (2003), United States v. Brown (1998)
29 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Robinett v. United States · Young v. Harper · United States v. Eichman · Ferrante 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant was a manager or supervisor (but not an organizer or leader) and the criminal activity involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he district court did not have the authority to grant [Small] immunity because this court has consistently refused to recognize the concept of judicial immunity.'”
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.