United States v. Glenn’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 863 · 1987
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Townsend (1991)
102 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Blumenthal v. United States
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence sufficient to permit a jury to find the ... agreement that the indictment charges,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[KJnown interdependence ... makes it reasonable to speak of a tacit understanding between the distributor and others upon whose unlawful acts the distributor knows his own success likely depends. When such interdependence is missing, when the distributor is indifferent to the purposes of others in the enterprise — say, other distributors — the tacit understanding does not exist.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'determine what kind of agreement or understanding existed as to each defendant.'”
3 later decisions 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.