United States v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 600 · 1983
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Bailey (1997), United States v. Thomas (1994)
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Lombard v. Marcera · Hullum 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an allegation as to the time of the offense is not an essential element of the offense charged in the indictment and, `within reasonable limits, proof of any date before the return of the indictment and within the statute of limitations is sufficient.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when a defendant appears at trial dressed in his Sunday best the prosecutor is entitled to show his appearance when arrested.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We need not decide whether appellants were prejudiced by nondisclosure of the three oral statements because the government had no duty to disclose them.... There is no question that Cochran did not know McAnally was a government agent when they spoke on December 20 and 21. Cochran's statements thus do not come within the range of the rule.”
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.