United States v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 263 · 1985
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2013
14 federal appellate · 6 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)
Relies on United States v. Robertson · United States v. Herman · United States v. Jimenez-Diaz · United States v. Donahey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]iscussions with a law enforcement agency in the spirit of cooperation and with hope for leniency, are not inadmissible under 11(e)(6)(D).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made in the course of plea discussions with an attorney for the government....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statements are inadmissible if made at any point during a discussion in which the defendant seeks to obtain concessions from the government in return for a plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Myrick
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.