United States v. Blanco’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 344 · 1988
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 354 - People v. Glaser (1995), United States v. Barrett (1989)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a criminal defendant may justify a separate trial where he can show that a co-defendant would be willing to testify for him, would not invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege, and would exculpate the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, although [the co-defendant] purported to waive his Fifth Amendment privilege, the waiver was illusory because it was conditioned upon his being tried before [the appellant].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was able to keep a watchful eye [on the car] from his hotel room.”
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.