Fitzgerald v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 1069 · 1983
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1987), United States v. Chalan (1987)
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Sansone v. United States · Goldstein v. United States · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A proper request. 29 "2. The lesser included offense consists of some, but not all, of the elements of the offense charged. 30 "3. The elements differentiating the two offenses is a matter in dispute. 31 "4. A jury could rationally convict the defendant of the lesser offense and acquit of the greater offense.”
6 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.