United States v. Cicale’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 95 · 1982
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably United States v. Nersesian (1987), United States v. Torres (1990)
52 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Nixon · Ingraham v. Wright · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the inability of retained counsel to serve gives promise of unreasonable delay or inconvenience in completing the trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exercise of that right [to counsel of choice] must at times give way to the need for a fair and efficient administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a likelihood of an illicit association between the declarant and the defendant,”
2 later decisions 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.