United States v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 23 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2017
10 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Roy v. Gravel · United States v. Blackston · United States v. Schocket · United States v. Rockwell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not a defense to an otherwise established simple possession offense [i.e., 21 U.S.C. Sec. 844] that the defendant did not possess the substance because he merely used or consumed it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`errant sophistry ... that somebody ... [could] knowingly and willfully use[] a controlled substance and simultaneously claim that that [use] d[id] not necessarily imply possession.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of intentional use of a... substance is sufficient to establish possession....”
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.