United States v. Oquendo’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 1307 · 1975
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably United States v. Bascaro (1984), United States v. Onori (1976)
39 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Procunier v. Martinez · Williamson v. United States · D'Avanzo 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the definition of 'distribute' contained in the statute is broad enough to include acts that traditionally perhaps would have been defined as mere aiding and abetting.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who has been indicted as a principal may be convicted on evidence showing only that he aided and abetted the commission of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled substance or a listed chemical, whether or not there exists an agency relationship.”
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.