United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 1353 · 1988
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Darden (1995), United States v. McGlory (1992)
73 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Ohio v. Roberts · United States v. Young · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Bourjaily 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen made on a routine basis, laboratory analyses of controlled substances are admissible as business records under Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]irmly rooted exceptions to the hearsay rule do not violate the Confrontation Clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sufficiency of the evidence in the light most favorable to the Government to determine if 'any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
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.