United States v. Bloomgren’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 580 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2009
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Franks v. Delaware · Roviaro v. United States · Rideout v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Kiser
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he deliberate falsity or reckless disregard whose impeachment is permitted today is only that of the affiant, not of any nongovernmental informant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Supreme Court's decision in Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 , 59, 77 S.Ct. 623, 627, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957), ... acknowledged the public's interest in protecting the identity of confidential informants in order to encourage the flow of information necessary in criminal prosecutions.... [T]he public's interest, as recognized in Roviaro, imposes procedural requirements and evidentiary burdens on a defendant who requests the disclosure of the confidential informant.”
1 later decision 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.