United States v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 430 · 1988
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Engelhardt (2005), United States of America v. George Varoudakis (2000)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ordinary inference here would seem very close to the inference the Rule was designed to avoid.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with 'sufficient information concerning formative events to make a "discriminating appraisal”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“into a relevant and not fully explored area”
3 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.