United States v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 74 · 1994
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1997), United States v. Quinn (2004)
30 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. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Davis v. United States · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Hayes v. Lockhart
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] defendant in a criminal case cannot complain of error which he himself has invited.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] court can not be asked by counsel to take a step in a case and later be convicted of error, because it has complied with such request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“will not support a conviction of a defendant charged as an aider and abettor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.