United States v. Acosta’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 721 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2022
12 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Rich v. United States · United States v. Russell · Peterson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“includes situations in which the declarant-- 20 .... 21 (4) is unable to be present or to testify at the hearing because of death or then existing physical or mental illness or infirmity.... 22 Fed.R.Evid. 804(a)(4). 23 It is well established that the infirmity of an elderly witness which prevents him or her from traveling is an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Determinations of the admissability of evidence are in the discretion of the trial judge and will not be reversed by an appellate court unless it finds an abuse of discretion.”
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.