United States v. Devous’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 1349 · 1985
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably United States v. Wright (1991), United States v. Gomez (1995)
35 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. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · United States v. Atkinson · Goldman v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. · Weingarden 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admission of transcripts to assist the trier of fact ... lies within the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court to make a pretrial determination of accuracy by reading the transcript against the tape....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silver
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.