United States v. Basey’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 198 · 1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Basey v. United States (1980), United States v. Zemek (1980)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Benton v. Maryland · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even uncorroborated accomplice testimony is 'sufficient evidence upon which to base a conviction if the testimony is not incredible or unsubstantial on its face.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the mental image derived from the identification procedure supplant[ed] that derived from the witness's own experience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unimportant under Fed.R.Evid. 803(6) that the custodian did not herself record the information or know who recorded the information.”
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.