United States v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 596 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Angle (2000), United States v. Casiano (1997)
38 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 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 845 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 861 (§ 420 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Bailey v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan · Brewster v. Derwinski · Staples v. United States
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any person at least eighteen years of age to knowingly and intentionally... (2) employ, hire, [or] use ... a person under eighteen years of age to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension for any offense of this subchap-ter or subehapter II of this chapter by any Federal, State or local law enforcement official; or (3) receive a controlled substance from a person under 18 years of age, other than an immediate family member, in violation of this subchapter or sub-chapter II of this chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no reason to apply the presumption in favor of a knowledge requirement [to 21 U.S.C. § 861(a)(3)] to protect otherwise innocent conduct for the obvious reason that receiving illegal drugs is not otherwise innocent conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence ... was clearly sufficient to support the conclusion that [the defendant] knew that [his cohort] was brandishing a gun during the drug transaction”
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.