United States v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 741 · 1979
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Heldt (1981), United States v. Sherlock (1989)
64 federal appellate · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · In re Oliver · Alford 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary for the government to prove that the appellants knew the identity and role of each of the co-conspirators or the details of the operations or any particular plan.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'What might have been discovered had a continuance been granted is inadequate to establish prejudice.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the distinction that our decisions have drawn between those situations wherein an informant's role was merely peripheral, and, in contrast, those situations wherein the informant actually witnessed the crime, or, as here, even helped instigate the criminal transaction.”
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.