United States v. Beler’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.3d 1428 · 1994
Citation profile
134 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Taylor (1995), United States v. Galbraith (2000)
134 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Yagow v. United States · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · United States v. Grayson
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider relevant information without regard to its admissibility under the rules of evidence applicable at trial, provided that the information has sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the entire evidence [we are] left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nreliable allegations must not be considered.”
5 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.