United States v. Breit’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 1084 · 1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2013
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Scott · United States v. Mackey · United States v. Breit
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before the jury that convicted Breit was whether Breit's $35,000 check was intended to fund a cocaine transaction as Creta testified. Id. at n. 6. Because of this, we found one of Breit's alleged discrepancies between Flowers' and Creta's testimony to be immaterial because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]oth Creta and Flowers were clear that the $35,000 drive-in window transaction they remembered was intended to fund a cocaine deal of some sort, and not for any innocent reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“either (1) that he simply did not know whether the proceeds returned by the teller were entirely in cash, or (2) that more than one check was involved in the 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.