United States v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.3d 554 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Yielding (2011), United States v. Jenkins-Watts (2009)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Massachusetts v. Upton · United States v. Reivich · Hatch v. Harpley
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A variance arises when the evidence presented proves facts that are 'materially different from those alleged in the indictment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the information he or she supplies is at least partially corroborated by other sources”
2 later decisions 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.