United States v. Tello’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 85 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Martin (1985), United States v. Lozano (1988)
18 federal appellate ·
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. § 952
Relies on Quercia v. United States · United States v. Murdock · United States v. Bentvena · Billeci v. United States · Severson 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do not assume that I hold any opinion of the matters to which my questions may have related. Whatever you may think my opinion is or may be is not to be considered by you. What I think is not important. What you think is important. It’s not my province — and I emphasize this — to judge the guilt or innocence of the defendant in this case. It’s yours. Remember at all times you’re at liberty to disregard any comment I have made during the trial, any comment on the evidence, but you can’t disregard the instructions. Lastly, I want to emphasize this: Don’t interpret anything I have said or done during the trial as suggesting to you what I think your verdict should be. That is not my responsibility. Certainly, I have an opinion. I heard the same evidence you did. What my opinion is doesn’t count, should not be considered under any circumstances. The verdict in this case is your duty and your responsibility, not someone else’s. I want to emphasize that.”
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.