United States v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 613 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably United States v. Sullivan (1990), United States v. Theodoropoulos (1989)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 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) · 26 U.S.C. § 5812 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · United States v. Harris · United States v. Powell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, and 'then determine whether there is substantial evidence from which a jury might properly find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he affidavit did not state on what date the informant claimed to have seen the transaction with the stolen guns in the appellant's home”
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.