Santos v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 340 · 1969
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably United States v. Scott (1970), 3 Cal. 3d 404 - In Re Johnson (1970)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Stovall v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Leary v. United States · Marchetti 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any person who is a transferee of [marihuana] required to pay the transfer tax imposed by section 4741(a)— (1) to acquire or otherwise obtain any marihuana without having paid such tax, or (2) to transport or conceal, or in any manner facilitate the transportation or concealment of, any marihuana so acquired or obtained.”
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.