United States v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 849 · 1973
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland (1979), United States v. Anthony J. Demma, United States of America v. Henry Brulay (1975)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Russell · Notaro v. United States · Campbell v. United States · Ortega 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has previously held that failure of a trial court to advise co-defendants that they have a right to separate counsel, absent a showing in the record of conflicting interests, is not reversible error.”
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.