United States v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 1072 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2012
13 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Hullum v. United States · United States v. Beechum · Commonwealth National Bank v. Ashe · Rogers 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was irrelevant or, in the alternative, its probative value was substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice. This court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence of a person's character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion.”
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.