United States v. Noe’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 604 · 1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably The United States of America v. James Glenn Chastain Larry Gene Hopkins (1999), United States v. Hastamorir (1989)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Harris v. New York · Rose v. Clark · Walder v. United States · Lombard v. Marcera
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would encourage precisely the 'trial by ambush' that the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were designed to prevent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alibi story, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide him a right . . . to devise a defense strategy on the basis of the evidence disclosed. . . . Had the government . . . complied fully with Noe's discovery request . . ., it would not now be before this court invoking vague notions of justice. Likewise, had Noe been aware of the tape recordings prior to trial, his counsel”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where it is apparent ... that [the] defense strategy may have been determined by the failure to [disclose], there should be a new trial.”
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.