United States v. Alfonso’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 369 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably United States v. Bowie (1990), United States v. Savaiano (1988)
27 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans · Rideout v. United States · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Kolender v. Lawson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutionally impermissible motivation on the part of the trial court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ailure to make these findings as a matter of record is reversible error in a jury trial.”
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.