United States v. Plescia’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 1452 · 1995
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Penny (1995), United States v. Jackson (2000)
42 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Olano · United States v. Bagley · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Austin 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'rely particularly heavily on the sound discretion of the trial judge to protect the rights of the accused'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of frequent and repeated transactions ... can support a conspiracy conviction. A purchaser of drugs for redistribution need not be accountable as an employee to the seller for a jury to find that the purchaser had joined in and furthered a conspiracy to distribute narcotics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A]s an appellate court sitting one step removed from the trial, we shall reverse the district court's decision only if we have a very strong conviction of error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.