United States v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 1119 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Butera (1982), United States v. Moschiano (1982)
23 federal appellate · 3 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · United States v. Beechum · New York v. Penn Central Transportation Co. · United States v. Morris
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence of the [later] sale of cocaine also showed a specific propensity to commit the particular crime of the sale of drugs. Despite Mack's protest to the contrary, the evidence showing that he had engaged in the [later] drug sale, even though that sale occurred after the incidents for which he was tried, did have a tendency to make it more probable that he was predisposed to commit the original offense charged....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecutor's remarks fall somewhat short of the high level of evenhandedness expected of those responsible for prosecutions in United States courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harich v. Wainwright“government offered evidence showing that Rodriguez had sold cocaine twenty days after the commission of the offenses with which he was charged.”
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.