United States v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 871 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Mitcheltree (1991), United States v. Arlen (1991)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 331 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 333 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 353 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · United States v. Rabinowitz · McNally v. United States · Greyhound Corporation v. Mt Hood Stages Inc · United States v. Grissom
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no trouble in ruling that the government offered sufficient evidence for the jury to find that Bradshaw intended to defraud those unknown third persons to whom Perkins and Shields would resell the drugs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“they never felt that Bradshaw defrauded or misled them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“methods of avoiding detection with ... customers,”
2 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.