United States v. Piesak’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 41 · 2008
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2021
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Manley · United States v. Woodward · United States v. Rivera-Sola · United States v. Becker · United States v. Felix
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and taking all inferences in its favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“less than what is necessary to complete the substantive crime, but more than 'mere preparation.'”
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.