United States v. Caminos’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 361 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Carr (1994), United States v. Brodie (2005)
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant himself was subjectively aware of the high probability of the fact in question”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberately closed his eyes to what otherwise would have been obvious to him concerning the fact in question.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“willful blindness to the existence of facts which indicated that there is a high probability that some forbidden or illegal substance may be contained therein,”
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.