United States v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 900 · 1983
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Pennell (1984), United States v. Lam Kwong-Wah (1991)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1791 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · United States v. Bass · In re Oliver · Albernaz v. United States · United States v. Bailey
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“$4,000” at the time of his detention because he felt embarrassed that he had agreed to participate for such a low sum. 3 . As will be discussed below, Earp's second argument on appeal is based upon a comment made by the government during its rebuttal closing argument. At a sidebar, defense counsel objected to the government’s comment but the District Court declined to give a curative instruction. App. at D-244. 4 . We also recognized, however, that the generally accepted common law definition of a term will not be imposed "if there are ‘grounds for inferring an affirmative instruction from Congress' to define it otherwise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for a defendant to be guilty of a criminal attempt, the objective acts performed, without any reliance on the accompanying mens rea [must] mark the defendant's conduct as criminal in nature. The acts should be unique rather than so commonplace that they are engaged in by persons not in violation of the law.... In other words, the defendant's objective conduct, taken as a whole, must unequivocally corroborate the required subjective intent to purchase or sell actual narcotics.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress intended to eliminate the defense of impossibility when it enacted section 846.”
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.