United States v. Silverstein’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1338 · 1984
Citation profile
248 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Wilkinson v. Austin (2005), Dawson v. Delaware (1992)
248 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Frady · Hoffman v. United States · Minnesota v. Murphy · Webb v. Texas
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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an actual miscarriage of justice, which implies the conviction of one who but for the error would have been acquitted.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an error must be conspicuous, at least in hindsight.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether the instructional mistake had a probable impact on the jury's finding that the defendant was guilty'”
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.