United States v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 240 · 1983
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. DeLuna (1985), United States v. Lewis (1985)
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Caminetti v. United States · Rideout v. United States · Patterson 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the individual entered an agreement with at least one other person, that the agreement had as its objective a violation of the law, and that one of those in agreement committed an act in furtherance of the objective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'even slight evidence connecting a particular defendant to the conspiracy may be substantial and therefore sufficient proof of the defendant's involvement in the scheme.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'In prosecutions for violations of narcotics law, the defendant's complicity in other similar narcotics transactions may serve to establish intent or motive to commit the crime charged.'”
2 later decisions 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.