United States v. Barcella’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 570 · 1970
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably United States v. Foster (1972), United States v. Luna (1978)
15 federal appellate · 10 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 McDonald v. United States · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · United States v. Sawyer · Commonwealth v. Harvard · Adams 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The procuring agent theory is new to this circuit. So far as we can discover, it was initiated in United States v. Sawyer, 3 Cir., 1954, 210 F.2d 169 , and now appears to be accepted in a majority of the circuits. [Citations omitted]. In essence the theory is that if the defendant, in procuring the drugs and delivering them to the recipient, acted solely as the agent of the recipient, and in no other capacity, then the delivery was the transfer by an agent to his principal of what already belonged to the principal * * (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rarely could it be ruled as matter of law that a gobetween was acting solely as a procuring agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.