United States v. Singleterry’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 1014 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Pielago (1998), United States v. Newsome (1993)
30 federal appellate · 2 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 Abujasen v. United States · Hall v. United States · United States v. Garza · United States v. Forrest · United States v. Longoria
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the long established rule that a defendant's guilt may not be proven by showing he associates with unsavory characters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is married to, associated with, or in the company of a criminal does not support the inference that the person is a criminal or shares in the criminal's guilty knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burns v. State
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.