United States v. Armedo-Sarmiento’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 785 · 1976
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Nersesian (1987), State v. Conway (2006)
89 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Bruton v. United States · Henry v. State of Mississippi · Bullock v. United States · Braverman 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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] single conspiracy is not transposed into a multiple one simply by lapse of time, change in membership, or a shifting emphasis in the locale of operation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our task on review is to determine whether the legal standard given to the jury by the trial court in its charge was correct and whether, viewing the proof in the light most favorable to the Government, there was sufficient evidence to permit the jury to find the single conspiracy alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)n all cases the government must be ready for trial within six months from the date of . . . the filing . . . of a formal charge upon which the defendant is to be tried. . . .”
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.