United States of America v. Andrew Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.3d 912 · 2001
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably McCoy v. United States (2001), United States v. Higgs (2003)
18 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Mechanik · Edwards v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n plain error review, `once the court concludes that the evidence was so strong that a petit jury was bound to find[] that a particular drug and quantity was involved, we can be confident in retrospect that the grand jury (which acts under a lower burden of persuasion) would have reached the same conclusion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless the error also causes a miscarriage of justice, in the sense of 'seriously affecting the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings,' a court of appeals retains discretion to affirm the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because each of the defendants... was convicted of conspiring with the others to distribute drugs, and as a member of the conspiracy each is accountable for the acts of all other conspirators within the scope of that agreement.”
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.