United States v. Saulter’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 270 · 1995
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Shannon (1996), United States v. Mansoori (2002)
54 federal appellate · 3 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Soberon v. United States · Harris v. McRae · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would have been physically impossible for the witness to observe what he described, or impossible under the laws of nature for those events to have occurred at all.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will overturn a conviction based on a credibility determination ... when a witness's testimony was incredible as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Second Circuit was especially troubled * * * by the government's heavy reliance, during summation, on expert testimony to support the credibility of its fact-witness[] and to show that the defendant[] acted in conformance with other guilty persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson
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.