United States v. Cotts’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 300 · 1994
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Jones (1994), United States v. Messino (1995)
84 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3563 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Stinson v. United States · Wright v. Wright · Rauer v. United States · Murphy v. Sullivan
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur inclination ... is not to subject isolated government conduct to a special brand of scrutiny when its effect is felt in sentence, as opposed to offense, determination.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the Note does not refer explicitly to reverse-buy situations, we have recognized that it theoretically has applicability to defendants caught in such a sting.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the case of a jointly undertaken activity...all reasonably foreseeable acts...in furtherance of the jointly undertaken activity.”
3 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.