United States v. Quesada’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 1043 · 1975
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Flores v. United States (1975), United States v. Postal (1979)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Glasser v. United States · Giglio v. United States · Turner v. United States · Frisbie v. Collins · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of the substance as a narcotic need not be proved by direct evidence if the circumstantial evidence presented establishes ... that beyond a reasonable doubt the substance was [as charged].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he introduction of a chemical analysis of the substance is not essential to conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuously referred to as the 'very best' heroin in his presence.”
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.