United States v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 682 · 1979
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Riccobene (1983), United States v. Evans (1983)
33 federal appellate · 5 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 Glasser v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Hamling v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Patterson 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be made clear that the guidelines established in Bell are flexible and are not infallible, and we should hesitate to fault a trial court for failure to comply literally with the procedures enunciated in Bell. [United States v. Littlefield, 594 F.2d 682 , 686 (8th Cir. 1979).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is also settled doctrine that the crime of conspiracy is complete on the agreement to violate the law as implemented by one or more overt acts, however innocent such act standing alone may be, and it is not dependent on the success or failure of the planned scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A conspiracy is a partnership in crime. It has ingredients, as well as implications, distinct from the completion of the unlawful project.”
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.