United States v. Felts’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 80 · 1974
Citation profile
36 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably United States v. Elliott (1978), United States v. Manzella (1986)
36 federal appellate ·
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. § 5010 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Perez · Pierce v. United States · United States v. Groessel
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although some members of the conspiracy did not engage in every transaction, such proof is not required to establish a conspiracy”
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.