United States v. O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 814 · 1984
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Echeverry (1985), United States v. Emmert (1987)
57 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress enacted 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) to reduce the distribution of narcotics in the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under our precedent, Kotteakos is inapplicable if . . . the evidence supports a finding that the charged conspiracy exists.”
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.