United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 966 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2019
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Chiarito
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conducted jointly by (DEA) Agent D'Antuono . . . and Customs Inspector Nowell . . .”
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.