United States v. Vargas-Rios’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 831 · 1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Kenny (1981), United States v. Arias-Villanueva (1993)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Chapman v. State of California · Costello v. United States · Williams v. United States · California v. Southland Royalty Co. · Forster 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is not a case in which dehors the misstatements there was a complete absence of evidence before the grand jury.””
1 later decision 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.