United States v. West’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1083 · 1975
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Hampton v. United States (1976), United States v. Twigg (1978)
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Relies on United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Cass v. United States · Masciale 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facilitate discovery or suppression of ongoing illicit traffic in drugs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once this evidence of the source of the narcotics was introduced the burden was upon the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the government informer did not supply the drugs. United States v. Silver, 3d Cir. 1972, 457 F.2d 1217 ; United States v. Landry, 7th Cir. 1958, 257 F.2d 425 ; United States v. Bue-no, supra. This the government did not even attempt to dispute. 511 F.2d at 1086 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct of law enforcement agents * * * so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction.”
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.