United States v. Michelena-Orovio’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 738 · 1983
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Cantwell (2006), United States v. Manbeck (1984)
76 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 846 · 18 U.S.C. § 963 · 21 U.S.C. § 176 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Albernaz 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“once the jury had reasonably concluded ... that the defendant was guilty of conspiracy to import marijuana, it was entitled to infer that the defendant was also guilty of participation in the conspiracy to possess the marijuana with intent to distribute it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conspiracies to distribute narcotics have generally been considered to be prime examples of chain, or interconnected, conspiracies, in which a participant in a segment of the conspiracy may be convicted of participating in the whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Falcone and Direct Sales must be viewed along a continuum of sales of goods to persons engaged in an unlawful conspiracy.”
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.