United States v. Reives’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 42 · 1994
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Quinn (2004), United States v. Williams (1998)
30 federal appellate · 4 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · In re Martin-Trigona
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e reaffirm our longstanding, albeit forgiving, proscription against any attempts to define reasonable doubt to jurors.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we have never found a refusal of a party's request for a clarifying instruction to be error ...,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistently and vigorously condemned the attempts of trial courts to define reasonable doubt”
2 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.