United States v. Khan’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 28 · 1986
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Torres (1990), Raskin v. Wyatt Co. (1997)
85 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the operations of narcotics dealers are a proper subject for expert testimony under Fed.R.Evid. 702.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the Due Process Clause is not offended by all possibilities of increased punishment upon retrial after appeal, but only by those that pose a realistic likelihood of `vindictiveness.'”
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.