United States v. Samad’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1091 · 1984
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Rusher (1992)
96 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Burks v. United States · United States v. Tresvant · United States v. Laughman · United States 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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exercises, or has the power to exercise, dominion and control over the item,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) knowingly (2) possessed a controlled substance (3) with the intent to distribute it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'appreciable ability to guide the destiny of the drug'”
4 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.