United States v. Marable’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 151 · 1978
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Stricklin (1979)
188 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Braverman v. United States · Sanabria v. United States · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Gavieres v. United States · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) time, (2) persons acting as co-conspirators, (3) the statutory offenses charged in the indictments, (4) the overt acts charged by the government or any other description of the offense charged which indicates the nature and scope of the activity which the government sought to punish in each case, and (5) places where the events alleged as part of the conspiracy took place.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conspiracy to distribute drugs, the time during which the conspiracy was operative and the statute allegedly violated, even if it fails to allege or prove any specific overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... is not an easy one because '[b]y the nature of the crime, the precise bounds of a single conspiracy seldom will be clear from the indictment alone.'”
4 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.