United States v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 72 · 1993
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably United States v. Randall (1999), United States v. Robertson (1995)
99 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 3143 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Turkette · Brewster v. Derwinski · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to determine the quantity of narcotics reasonably foreseeable to each coconspirator within the scope of his agreement.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all reasonably foreseeable acts and omissions of others in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant is accountable for all quantities of contraband with which he was directly involved and, in the case of a jointly undertaken criminal activity, all foreseeable quantities of contraband that were within the scope of the criminal activity that he jointly undertook.”
9 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.