United States v. Cassity’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 461 · 1980
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Davis (1987), United States v. Westbrook (1997)
43 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · Nardone v. United States · United States v. Salvucci
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disputes over police conduct not immediately relevant to the question of guilt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“additional challenges by the other appellants raising the identical legal issue would neither have altered the court's ruling nor serve the purposes of the pre-trial motion rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [T]he declarations and acts of the various members, even though made or done prior to the adherence of some to the conspiracy, become admissible against all as declarations or acts of co-conspirators in aid of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.