United States v. Baines’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 41 · 1987
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Pungitore (1990), United States v. Saccoccia (1995)
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Cohen v. United States · United States v. Petrozziello · United States v. Jannotti · United States v. Anderson
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] conspiracy is like a train. When a party knowingly steps aboard, he is part of the crew, and assumes conspirator's responsibility for the existing freight--or conduct--regardless of whether he is aware of just what it is composed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Fed.R.Evid. 801(d)(2)(E) does not change the common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.