United States v. Touchstone’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 1116 · 1984
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Christian (1986), United States v. Gaitan-Acevedo (1998)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Cleveland v. United States · United States v. Myers
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury was otherwise in possession of sufficient information concerning formative events to make a 'discriminating appraisal' of a witness' motives and bias.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be given 'reasonable latitude' in developing facts tending to show that the testimony in chief was untrue or biased.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally only becomes important in those cases where the defendant does not know, or his knowledge is doubtful, about the charges and accusations made against him.”
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.