United States v. Cortez’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1 · 1975
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2001
15 federal appellate · 2 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. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Harper
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not necessary to so instruct the jury when they are instructed properly on 'reasonable doubt.'”
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.