United States v. Luis-Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 1539 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Walton (1993), United States v. Alvarez (1985)
34 federal appellate · 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 14 U.S.C. § 89 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 955A
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Blockburger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Brown v. Ohio
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We conclude from the unambiguous language of section 955a(a)-(d) and the absence of any evidence of a contrary intention in the legislative history that subsections (a) through (d) of 21 U.S.C. § 955a state separate offenses for which separate convictions may be obtained.” 4”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A refusal to deliver a requested jury instruction is reversible error only if the instruction (1) is substantially correct, (2) is not substantially covered by others delivered, and (3) concerns an important point in the trial so that the failure to give it seriously impaired the defendant’s ability to present a given defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely establish separate criteria by which jurisdiction of vessels on the high seas may be obtained.”
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.