United States v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1196 · 1980
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Williams (1984), United States v. Hartley (1982)
138 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 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Blumenthal v. United States · United States v. Feola · Lombard v. Marcera · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Scales 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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof is not required that the defendant had knowledge of all the details of the conspiracy; the defendant need only have knowledge of the essential objective of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reasonable jury could very well conclude that only one with knowledge of the marijuana, and who had agreed to participate in the scheme to accomplish its importation, would promise to be on hand at a remote and unlikely area for the unloading of cargo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“escape criminal responsibility on the grounds that he did not join the conspiracy until well after its inception [citations omitted]; or because he plays only a minor role in the total scheme.”
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.