United States v. Yater’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 1058 · 1985
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Asibor (1997), United States v. Stanley (1985)
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Mabry v. Johnson
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cases in which the government directs the informant to implicate government-pretargeted specific defendants.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] defendant's plea of guilty admits, in legal effect, the facts as charged and waives all non-jurisdictional defenses. Entrapment is a non-jurisdictional defense on the merits and petitioner [has] waived [his] right to assert it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Williamson has been subsequently limited to require reversal of a conviction only when the specific defendant was picked out for the informer's efforts by a government agent.”
2 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.