United States v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 337 · 1985
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988), United States v. Hernandez-Escarsega (1989)
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Green v. United States · United States v. Scott
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relieve a defendant from the consequences of his voluntary choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“multiple punishments for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beam v. Foltz
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.