United States v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 830 · 1985
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 7 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Dixon v. United States (2006), United States v. Baker (2005)
189 federal appellate · 7 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 907
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pinkerton v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court need not inquire into the individual culpability of a particular conspirator, so long as the substantive crime was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the conspiracy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably foreseen as a necessary or natural consequence of the unlawful agreement.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably foreseeable but originally unintended substantive crimes”
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.