United States v. Massell’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 1503 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2022
15 federal appellate · 4 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. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 955A
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Rakas v. Illinois · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Delaware v. Prouse · Bumper v. North Carolina
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the lower court's account is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety, we may not reverse it, even if we would have weighed the evidence differently”
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.