United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 38 · 1976
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably Florida v. Royer (1983), United States v. Berry (1982)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Draper 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“traveling from Los Angeles, [it being known `that Los Angeles, California is a major distribution area for Mexican heroin,'] (has) little or no probative value”
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.