United States v. August’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 76 · 1987
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Lara-Velasquez (1990), United States v. Faulkner (1994)
44 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. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Infelice v. United States · Tisdale v. United States · United States v. Mandujano · United States v. Manley
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the court's charge, as a whole, is a correct statement of the law and whether it clearly instructs jurors as to the principles of law applicable to the factual issues confronting them.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“view the evidence and all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence in the light most favorable to the Government.”
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.