United States v. Mora’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 233 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably United States v. Record (1989), United States v. Sullivan (1990)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · In re Martin-Trigona
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.
“'whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment' on the defendant's right to remain silent.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when asked about the bite marks constituted references to Nielsen's silence. ¶ 34. Therefore, the next issue is whether the State's questions and Josephson's answers constituted an impermissible comment on Nielsen's right to remain silent. Viewing the State's comments in context, we conclude that neither were they”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Furthermore, `[m]anifest intent will not be found if some other explanation for the prosecutor's remark is equally plausible.'”
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.