United States v. Viserto’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 531 · 1979
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Young (1984), United States v. Carson (1983)
105 federal appellate · 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bullock v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Romano 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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“once it is determined that these pleas in bar have been rejected, a judgment of acquittal is not usually admissible to rebut inferences that may be drawn from the evidence that was admitted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any relevant written or recorded statements made by the defendant ... within the possession, custody or control of the government”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the statement was memorialized originally only in the recollection of a witness, it is not discoverable.”
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.