United States v. Abcasis’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 39 · 1995
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Gil (2002), United States v. George (2004)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Crane v. Kentucky · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Raley v. Ohio · Green v. Brown
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defense will not support a claim of an open-ended license to commit crimes in the expectation of receiving subsequent authorization,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a drug enforcement agent solicits a defendant to engage in otherwise criminal conduct as a confidential informant, or effectively communicates an assurance that the defendant is acting under [government] authorization, and the defendant, relying thereon, commits forbidden acts in the mistaken but reasonable, good faith belief that he has in fact been authorized to do so as an aid to law enforcement, then estoppel bars conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unfairness of prosecuting one who has been led by the conduct of government agents to believe his acts were authorized.”
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.