United States v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 827 · 1987
Citation profile
41 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Mala (1993), United States v. Sanchez (1990)
41 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Kobrosky · Mack v. United States · United States v. McClure · United States v. Allen
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the basic principle of [conspiracy law] is easily understood: a group of people agreeing to do something illegal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depend on evidentiary matters that are best considered by the district court in the first instance.”
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.