United States v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1166 · 1976
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably United States v. Staten (1978), United States v. Raper (1982)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Anderson v. United States · Gerry v. United States · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Graves v. United States · United States v. Anderson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the Jencks Act is to make any existing prior statement of a government witness concerning matters covered by direct examination equally available to the defense and the prosecution____ Since it is ordinarily difficult upon a cold record to ascertain the value to the defense of a statement withheld, violation of the Act should be excused only where it is perfectly clear that the defense was not prejudiced by the omission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Campbell v. U. S., 365 U.S. 85 , 92, 81 S.Ct. 421, 425, 5 L.Ed.2d 428 (1961). The Act makes any existing prior statement of a government witness concerning matters covered by direct examination equally available to the defense and the prosecution. See U. S. v. Snow, 537 F.2d 1166 (4th Cir. 1976). Goldberg's call for a strict, harmless error standard will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ (8) The terms ‘deliver’ or ‘delivery’ means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled substance, whether or not there exists an agency relationship. “(11) The term ‘distribute’ means to deliver ... a controlled substance. The term ‘distributor’ means a person who so delivers a controlled substance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.