United States v. Coady’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 119 · 1987
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Valentin v. Hospital Bella Vista (2001), United States v. Cintolo (1987)
96 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Nye & Nissen v. United States · Raphan v. United States · Cryts v. French · United States v. Peoni · Tocco v. United States
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person succumbs to his own greed or to the lure of easy money”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a government agent turned him from a righteous path to an iniquitous one ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that mere solicitation cannot be equated with entrapment....”
3 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.