United States v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 243 · 1977
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Melchor-Lopez (1980), United States v. Williams (1979)
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Nixon · Patterson v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Rogers 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ (8) The terms ‘deliver’ or ‘delivery’ means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled substance, whether or not there exists an agency relationship. “(11) The term ‘distribute’ means to deliver ... a controlled substance. The term ‘distributor’ means a person who so delivers a controlled substance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must exist some element of affirmative cooperation or at least agreement to cooperate in the object of the conspiracy.”
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.