United States v. Requarth’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 1249 · 1988
Citation profile
51 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. McNeese (1990)
51 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 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. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Scharffe v. Perkins · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Herrmann v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the reviewing court is convinced that it is necessary in order to avert an actual miscarriage of justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we must examine the entire record before us, and determine whether the instructional mistake had a probable impact on the jury's finding that the defendant was guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A plain error is one that is 'not only palpably wrong but also likely to cause the outcome of the trial to be mistaken.'”
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.