United States v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 849 · 1993
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2010
15 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Shugrue · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · Shaw v. Barr · United States v. Kikumura · Gulf States Steel, Inc. v. LTV Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall approximate the quantity of the controlled substance.”
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.