United States v. Podlog’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 699 · 1994
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Diaz (1999), United States v. Reifler (2006)
46 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Yagow v. United States · G-K Development Co. v. Broadmoor Place Investments · Griffin v. United States · Lumpkin v. Lumpkin · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] conviction for conspiracy must be upheld if there was evidence from which the jury could reasonably have inferred that the defendant knew of the conspiracy charged in the indictment and that he associated himself with the venture in some fashion, participated in it as something that he wished to bring about, or sought by his action to make it succeed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In cases in which the narcotics distribution was completed, we have held that, notwithstanding varying amounts involved in the negotiations leading up to the final conspiratorial agreement, it is the amount ultimately agreed upon that should be punished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was no reasonable opportunity to escape other than by engaging in the otherwise unlawful activity.”
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.