United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 1458 · 1994
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Washington (2003), United States v. Fregoso (1995)
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Hamling v. United States · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Strauder v. West Virginia · Kahn v. Grant
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in allowing him to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. 10 Iv. A. Washington argues that the district court erred by allowing the government to present a surprise witness, Cheryl Moore, in violation of an order entered by the Magistrate Judge denying Washing~ ton's motion for a bill of particulars. 11”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The] district court has broad discretion with regard to discovery n-lotions and [we] will uphold the ... decision of the district court unless, considering all of the circumstances, its rulings were seen to be a gross abuse of discretion, resulting in a fundamental unfairness at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Amy error in administering discovery rules is not reversible unless prejudicial to the substantial rights of the defendant.”
2 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.