United States v. Sasson’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 874 · 1995
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Parra (2005)
42 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is of peripheral concern to the Sixth Amendment how much opportunity defense counsel gets to hammer [a] point home to the jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not cross- examination that is effective in whatever way, and to whatever extent, the defense might wish.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile mere presence at the scene of a drug deal is insufficient to establish membership in a drug conspiracy ... '[p]resence or a single act will suffice ... if the circumstances permit the inference that the presence or act was intended to advance the ends of conspiracy.”
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.