United States v. Carrillo’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 35 · 1983
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Pedro M. Gonzalez-Sanchez, United States of America v. Carlos Latorre, United States of America v. Manuel Parrilla-Marquez (1987), United States v. Moscahlaidis (1989)
42 federal appellate · 6 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Krasn · Cooper v. United States · United States v. Irwin
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cases may arise in which the law of contracts will not provide a sufficient analogy”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chacon · State v. Bryant“under settled notions of fundamental fairness the government [is] bound to uphold its end of the bargain”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule requiring compliance by the government with promises made during plea bargaining and analogous contexts generally requires that the agent be authorized to make the promise.). Rather, the government contends that no such promise was made. Like a plea agreement, "an agreement to cooperate may be analyzed in terms of contract law standards.”
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.