United States v. Basurto’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 781 · 1974
Citation profile
183 federal appellate · 14 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Williams (1992), United States v. Torres (1990)
183 federal appellate · 14 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 20 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. § 171 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on an indictment which the government knows is based partially on perjured testimony, when the perjured testimony is material, and when jeopardy has not attached.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An important function of our supervisory power is to guarantee that federal prosecutors act with due regard for the integrity of the administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not to permit a person to stand trial when he knows that perjury permeates the indictment”
2 later decisions 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.