United States v. Harlin’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 679 · 1976
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Blackwell (1982), 172 W. Va. 266 - State v. Cooper (1983)
21 federal appellate · 6 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Webb v. Texas · Oregon ex rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co. · United States v. Moore · Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely warning a defendant of the consequences of perjury demands reversal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I assume you have advised her of the penalties of perjury ... and that if it appears that a defendant is lying, the Court can take that into account, too”
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.