United States v. Monahan’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 984 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably People v. Lowe (1983), United States v. Mendez-Ortiz (1986)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Louisiana · Moore v. United States · Freeman v. Zahradnick · Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad v. United States · United States v. Franks
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The offensiveness of threatening personal harm to a witness shows that [the defendant] was willing to take extreme measures to exclude pertinent evidence from trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impl[y] a knowledge and fear of particular and damaging testimony intimately related to the prosecution at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrates only a preference to avoid legal involvement,”
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.