Bellavia v. Fogg’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 369 · 1979
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Alessi (1980), United States v. Aulet (1980)
20 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Woodson v. North Carolina · Robinson v. State of California · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shock the conscience farce and mockery of justice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brinkley v. Lefevre
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.