United States v. Vela’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 86 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Linn (1989), United States v. Dupuy (1985)
26 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 Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · United States v. Myers · Montellano v. United States · Ware 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 12.1 permits the prosecution to ascertain in advance of trial whether a defendant will offer an alibi and if so the details and the witnesses he [or she] proposes to call to establish it. In return, the prosecution must reveal the names of the witnesses it will call to rebut the alibi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would be even more reliable than ... average business record[s] because they are not even touched by the hand of man”) (alteration in original and internal quotation marks omitted). 24 . These are not, for example,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the source of information or the method or circumstances of preparation indicate a lack of trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.