Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 799 · 1969
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Flynt (1985)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Leary v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Minor v. United States · Evalt v. United States · Walker 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the use by the Government of an informer while there is pending against him serious charges of narcotic violations which might result in a long penitentiary sentence has been condemned (see Matysek v. United States, supra, 321 F.2d 246 , 249 (9th Cir. 1963)), we cannot find entrapment as a matter of law.””
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.