United States v. Khan’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 90 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State v. Gant (1994), United States v. Dowlin (2005)
29 federal appellate · 8 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 Cupp v. Naughten · Rideout v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Wisconsin
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that if the jury believes the evidence permits either the inference of innocence or of guilt, the jury should adopt the former, is obviously correct as far as it goes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n a charge that properly instructs the jury on reasonable doubt, the 'two-inference' language adds nothing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial judges should not include any variation of the 'two-inference' language in their charge.”
3 later decisions 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.