United States v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 1132 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2006
17 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Pauline · United States v. Morton · United States v. Schuster · United States v. Cammarata
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, the death of a criminal defendant during the pendency of his appeal abates the entire proceeding ab initio. "); United States v. Schuster, 778 F.2d 1132 , 1133 (5th Cir.1985) ("Under the firmly established rule in this circuit, the death of a defendant pending conclusion of the direct criminal appeal abates, ab initio, not only the appeal, but the entire criminal proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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