United States v. Mayo’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1084 · 1983
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Dorszynski v. United States · Nash 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[tjhis court has, on numerous occasions, had the opportunity to review convictions for violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1), 846. As we have previously stated, and again reiterate, when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence' to establish a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute narcotics, we will affirm the trial court unless the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the government, could not have persuaded any rational trier of fact of defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a combination or confederation between two or more people formed for the purpose of committing by their joint efforts, a criminal act,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstantial evidence from which the jury could reasonably infer the existence of an agreement is permissible.”
3 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.