United States v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 267 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2012
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · United States v. Andrus · United States v. U.S. Currency, in the Amount of $103,387.27
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is essential to a fair determination of a cause”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the defendant] has failed to demonstrate that he possesses a genuine need of informant disclosure that outweighs the public's interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“search warrant was executed at a townhouse. Id. at 267-68. The search warrant in Bender was issued based on the fact that a confidential informant had made three purchases of crack cocaine from the townhouse from individuals other than the defendant. Id. at 268. Bender claimed he did not own the drugs he had been holding and was in the townhouse for the first time on a social visit when the warrant was executed. Id. at 269. The panel in Bender affirmed the denial of Bender's motion to disclose the identity of the confidential informant, characterizing the informant as a”
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.