United States v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 773 · 1978
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Conatser (2008), United States v. August (1992)
37 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Castor v. United States · Scalza v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“jury had a right to consider all of the evidence before the court bearing on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Considering all of the issues in this case, including the charge of conspiracy in which it was charged that the object of the conspiracy was for the appellant to supply written orders purporting to be prescriptions to others to enable them to obtain controlled substances for personal use and further distribution, this evidence was relevant.” United States v. Kirk, supra, at 788 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[K]nowledge, like intent, is a factual issue which may be proved by circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.