United States v. Cichon’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 269 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 209 Ill. 2d 492 - People v. Braggs (2004), United States v. Brooks (1997)
23 federal appellate · 1 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Harris v. New York · Miller v. Fenton · Mitan v. United States · Norman v. Reed · United States v. Dunkel
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government does not argue that the issue has been waived and therefore we shall not pursue the matter further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“government waived the defense of waiver by failing to raise it on appeal”
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.