United States v. Flecha’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 874 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 505 F. Supp. 1190 - Zenith Radio Corp. v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (1980), United States v. Mackey (1978)
16 federal appellate · 5 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. § 952
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · California v. Green · United States v. Hale · Oregon ex rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Silence is not evidence of an admission, unless there are circumstances which render it more reasonably probable that a man would answer the charge made against him than that he would not.”
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.