United States v. Basinger’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 1400 · 1995
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Ivy (1996), United States v. White (2007)
94 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Vandygriff v. Phillips · United States v. Janis · Chapman 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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amount [of methamphetamine] seized does not reflect the scale of the offense”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The evidence is sufficient to support [a] conviction if, reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a written summary of [expert] testimony the government intends to use ... during its case in chief at trial. This summary must describe the witnesses' opinions, the bases and reasons therefor, and the witnesses' qualifications.”
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.