United States v. Batts’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 513 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably United States v. Herman (1978), United States v. Smith Grading & Paving, Inc. (1985)
25 federal appellate ·
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. § 952
Relies on Agnello v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Walder v. United States · Jones 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ndividual rules of evidence, in this instance Rule 608(b) should not be read in isolation, when to do so destroys the purpose of ascertaining the truth. This is especially so when a witness directly contradicts the relevant evidence Rule 608(b) seeks to exclude.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Q. You are being handed No. 10, the spoon; what is that, Mr. Batts? A. That’s a necklace that was given to me by my girlfriend. Q. And what is it supposed to be? A. Well, I used it for cleaning the dirt out from under my fingernails. I don’t know what they use it for. Q. You don’t know what it is? A. Well, I had an idea when they were asking me, ‘Well, don’t you use this for sniffing coke?’ and I said, ‘No, I do not.’ Q. Is what you are saying is that you didn’t know before they said anything that that is commonly known as a coke spoon? A. No, I did not. Q. You had no knowledge about that? A. No, sir. Q. No knowledge about cocaine use, are you saying no? A. No.” (R.T. 135)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““THE COURT: . . . Frankly, I was going to rule with Mr. Guterson on this until the testimony of Mr. Batts. He stated that he didn’t know — had no knowledge about cocaine use, no knowledge about the use of this spoon. He also testified, and this response kind of slipped by, he testified that he really didn’t know what this was, and I’m speaking of the spoon, speaking of the hash, until later, and he found out what this substance was.” (R.T. 151-52)”
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.