United States v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 514 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2014
16 federal appellate · 3 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Garber v. United States · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · Walker v. United States · United States v. Twigg
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he government merely provided an impetus to [the defendants, and] ... [u]nder these circumstances, providing the drugs for the transaction did not constitute government misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“government agents engineer[ed] ... the criminal enterprise from start to finish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.