United States v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 29 · 1975
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably United States v. Myers (1977), United States v. Vera (1983)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Allen v. United States · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. v. Mitchell · Alberty 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be highly conjectural and speculative indeed to conclude from these facts [where the defendant drove a friend who was carrying a closed box to an apartment for a drug sale, waited for him, fled from the scene when law enforcement agents arrived, abandoned his truck and shotgun, and eluded police officers for two years] that Craig had knowledge of the presence of drugs in the closed box....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Craig [the appellant] drove Patterson with the closed box of drugs to Davis’ apartment in Craig’s truck; that Craig fled when agents began to move toward the apartment, later abandoning his truck in which a shotgun was found; and that Craig successfully eluded police for about two years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“how much weight should be given to such evidence.”
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.