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United States v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis

463 F.2d 291 · 1972

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
December 2021
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Robinson v. United States (1972), United States v. Dolan (1976)

19 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

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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 26 U.S.C. § 4701

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Turner v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · United States v. Gainey

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.

  1. “[W]here, as here, that judgment has in the first instance been exercised by the trial judge, we think it clear that it must be accorded due deference. . . . [Footnote omitted.]”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Our decisions lay down no rules as to the weight to be assigned to these factors ; they call, instead, for judicial judgment of the most delicate type. . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. ““ * * * [W]e might take judicial notice * * * that cocaine, as a derivative of coca leaves, is embraced within that definition, a fact judicial authority amply confirms.””
    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.