United States v. Mendia’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 1412 · 1984
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Angiulo (1990), United States v. Dicesare (1985)
38 federal appellate · 2 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)
Relies on Akers v. United States · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Train · United States v. Lord · United States v. Alessio
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision to grant immunity to prospective defense witnesses is left to the discretion of the executive branch.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a factual issue and will not be reversed unless it is clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may extinguish the defendant's reasonable privacy expectations.”
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.