United States v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 997 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Posr v. Doherty (1991), Oliveira v. Mayer (1994)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Robinson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An arrest need not be formal; it may occur even if the formal words of arrest have not been spoken provided that the subject is restrained and his freedom of movement is restricted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Decker“that is so interwoven with the charged crime that it is impossible to prove one without revealing the other”
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.