United States v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 1179 · 1980
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1985), United States v. Smith (1986)
46 federal appellate · 1 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. § 952
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Dutton v. Evans · Lutwak 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test ... is whether 'under the circumstances, the unavailability of the declarant for cross-examination deprived the jury of a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of the extra-judicial statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyle v. Koehler“it was not necessary that they were in furtherance of the conspiracy in order to be admissible against the other defendants”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyle v. Koehler“consciously established the condition which the government now points to as an exigent circumstance.”
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.