United States v. Samango’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 877 · 1979
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 11 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Williams (1992), United States v. Sepulveda (1993)
87 federal appellate · 11 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on United States v. Calandra · Costello v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Branzburg v. Hayes · Olmstead 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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A line must be drawn beyond which prosecutor's control over a cooperative grand jury may not extend.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he cumulative effect of the above errors and indiscretions, none of which alone might have been enough to tip the scales, operated to the defendants' prejudice by producing a biased grand jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'will not interfere with the Attorney General's prosecutorial discretion unless it is abused to such an extent as to be arbitrary and capricious and violative of due process.'”
5 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.