United States v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 461 · 1984
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Morrow (1992), United States v. Erwin (1986)
70 federal appellate · 2 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. § 472 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 659 · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Williams v. People of State of New York · Braverman v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the quantity of the substance constitutes a critical element of the offense under 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(b)(6)....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for sentencing purposes, specific considerations to be given to the type and quantity of the substances.”
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.