United States v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 778 · 1998
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States of America v. Clarence Richardson Jr (2000), United States of America v. Noe Mancillas (1999)
47 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. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Ornelas v. United States · Muscarello v. United States · Alaska v. Babbitt
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the relevant inquiry is whether the defendant was a minor participant in the crime for which [she] was convicted, not whether [she] was a minor participant in some broader conspiracy that may have surrounded it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is imperative that the facts be judged against an objective standard: would the facts available to the officer at the moment of the seizure or the search 'warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief' that the action taken was appropriate?”
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.