United States v. Mesa’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 1070 · 1981
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. Hartley (1982), United States v. Blasco (1983)
50 federal appellate · 8 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Carroll v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Alford 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the evidence must be discovered following trial; (2) the movant must show due diligence to discover the evidence, (3) the evidence must not be merely cumulative or impeaching, (4) the evidence must be material to the issues before the court, and (5) the evidence must be of such a nature that a new trial would probably produce a new result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ample opportunity to identify this witness with his environment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist.”
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.