United States v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 411 · 1977
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Mandel (1979), United States v. Xheka (1983)
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to support the inference that the defendant in some way joined and participated in the conspiratorial scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In almost any criminal case, we think, the fact of the indictment has some emphasis. To the degree an uninstructed jury considers the matter, there is a real possibility that a charge leveled by a grand jury composed of its peers will weigh in the petit jury’s balance on the side of guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere association with conspirators, knowledge of a conspiracy, and presence during conspiratorial discussions,”
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.