United States v. Alcantar’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 185 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Brooks (1997), United States v. Zizzo (1997)
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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Liegl v. Webb · Penn v. Parke State Bank · Dennis v. United States · Carballo 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would have been physically impossible for the witness to observe what he described, or impossible under the laws of nature for those events to have occurred at all.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attacks on witness credibility are insufficient to sustain a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Questions of witness credibility are reserved for the jury, and its assessments will not be second-guessed by an appellate panel.”
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.