United States v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 21 · 1994
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably United States v. Tibolt (1995), United States v. Montas (1994)
39 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2 · 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)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Carnegie v. United States · Bourjaily v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Kuntz v. City of Dayton
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]rror rises to this level only when it is so shocking that [it] seriously affect[ed] the fundamental fairness and basic integrity of the proceedings conducted below.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there would be no basis for finding that defendant did not foresee that at least five kilograms of cocaine were involved in his crimes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the evidence was unknown or unavailable to the defendant at the time of trial; (2) failure to learn of the evidence was not due to lack of diligence by the defendant; (3) the evidence is material and not merely cumulative or impeaching; and (4) it will probably result in an acquittal upon retrial of the defendant.”
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.