United States v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 1231 · 1983
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez (1989), United States v. Blake (1989)
23 federal appellate · 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Raddatz · Rideout v. United States · Mathews v. Weber · Everett C. McKethan 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“made it clear that the district court, in making its de novo determination of the record, could afford the magistrate credibility findings “ ‘such weight as [their] merit commands and the sound discretion of the judge warrants.’ ” Id. at 683 , 100 S.Ct. at 2416 (quoting Mathews v. Weber, 423 U.S. 261, 275 , 96 S.Ct. 549, 556 , 46 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976)). Thus, on appeal, the district court’s decision to adopt the magistrate’s credibility rulings without hearing the testimony can only be said to be abuse of discretion if the record reflects that those rulings were themselves clearly erroneous and entitled to no weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“implied a contrary meaning. In either case, the gesture, when viewed in the context of his other actions was at best ambiguous, and given his general cooperative attitude during the search, wholly ineffective to communicate an intention to rescind or narrow his consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statutory mandate to extirpate the drug trade in the United States” since ”[t]he compilation of such information for the nonlitigative purpose of identifying national trends in the illicit drug market provides little incentive for misrepresentation by these agents,” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. State
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.