United States v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 294 · 1993
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Delgado (2012), United States v. Turner (2007)
82 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Young
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“using the standard of whether the court's charge, as a whole, is a correct statement of the law and whether it clearly instructs jurors as to principles of law applicable to the factual issues confronting them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should only be given when a defendant claims a lack of guilty knowledge and the proof at trial supports an inference of deliberate indifference.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“error in giving the deliberate ignorance instruction is ... harmless where there is substantial evidence of actual knowledge.”
3 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.