United States v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 1113 · 1976
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Swanson (1991), United States v. Bess (1979)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Anders v. California · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Smith v. Crouse · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Fisher 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is hornbook law that the waiver is limited to the particular proceeding in which the witness appears.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is, of course, elementary that statements of counsel as to personal belief or opinion are improper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are hopeful that counsel will continue to give every case their serious professional attention, but that when issues are clearly frivolous, they will not pursue them blindly and with dogged determination, drowning the courts in an ocean of paper and strained argument, while knowing the law is against them. If the Bar would cooperate more fully with the courts, giving greater attention to this problem, the mounting dockets we now face would disappear. United States v. Cain, 544 F.2d 1113, 1117 (1st Cir. 1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Miller
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.