United States v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 505 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Ordonez (1983), United States v. Jaramillo-Suarez (1991)
24 federal appellate · 2 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)
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Russell · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · United States v. Gomez-Rojas · United States v. Bueno
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if from all the circumstances an inference of unfavorable testimony from an absent witness is a natural and reasonable one.”
3 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.