United States v. King’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 586 · 1985
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Rawle (1988), United States v. Crockett (1987)
32 federal appellate · 1 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 Burks v. United States · United States v. Samad · United States v. Hadaway · United States v. Bice-Bey
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“makes it more likely that [he] intended to distribute drugs and was not an innocent friend of [co-defendant's] caught in the wrong place at the wrong time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the government, the jury could not reasonably find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relevant to resolution of the intent and absence of mistake issues”
2 later decisions 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.