United States v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 116 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2009
10 federal appellate · 12 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)
Relies on Johnson v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Western Natural Gas Co. v. Cities Service Gas Co. · Bendelow v. United States · United States v. Bobbitt
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... When during a jury trial evidence is introduced that the defendant has a prior conviction for the same offense for which he is being tried, both counsel and the court have a duty to minimize the risk that the jury would infer guilt on the cocaine charges from the fact of previous convictions on cocaine charges. Thus, in this situation when no cautionary instruction is given to the jury, prejudicial error has intervened... . We cannot state with assurance that the failure to give a limiting instruction sua sponte did not influence the jury or have but a very slight effect on its deliberation. Accordingly we must set aside the conviction and order a new trial.”
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.