United States v. Roche’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.3d 614 · 2005
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Chau (2005), United States v. Fields (2007)
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Crawford v. Washington · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Blick · Neal 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“witnesses providing information to the court after guilt is established are not accusers within the meaning of the confrontation clause”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this removes the foundation of Seacott and similar decisions”
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.