United States v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.3d 1003 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Patrick · United States v. McIntyre · United States v. Zafiro · United States of v. Gordon Thornton Garrick Jackson Kirk Reynolds Michael Harris · United States v. Arrington
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many [federal] courts . . . have held that merchandise receipts, utility bills, and similar documents are not hearsay when they are offered as circumstantial evidence to link a defendant to a particular place, to other defendants, or to an illegal item.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. State“verbal conduct which is assertive but offered as a basis for inferring something other than the matter asserted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. State
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.