United States v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 860 · 1985
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Boylan (1990), United States of America v. Marion Promise (2001)
63 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Cortez · Chambers v. Maroney
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n assessing the import of the evidence, the expertise and experience of the law enforcement officers must also be taken into account.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[P]roving the amount of marijuana is an essential element of the offense only under 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(b)(6)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is free to choose among various reasonable constructions of the evidence'”
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.