United States v. Solis’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 307 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Sanchez (1990)
29 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)
Relies on Bain Jr · United States v. Miller · United States v. Larios · United States v. Carter
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“since it had evidence of possession before it and had been told the elements of the crime of possession of heroin. Id. It was not enough that the trial court read the indictment to the jury and told the jury that the defendants were on trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury could very well have concluded that it could convict for possession of heroin for distribution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional error was not waived by the failure to point it out to the court”
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.