United States v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 96 · 1979
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Whitten (1983), United States v. Davis (1982)
20 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Jordan v. De George · Hyde v. United States · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Filmon v. Florida
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In permitting the Government to bring conspiracy charges in any district where an overt act was alleged to have been committed, the statute [ 21 U.S.C. § 846 ] is not inconsistent with the Sixth Amend ment right of the accused to ‘trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“questions have the effect of supplying a witness with a false memory,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. State
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.