United States v. Garbett’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 1132 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Wise (1992)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bourjaily v. United States · New Motor Vehicle Board of California v. Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp. · Carter v. Hewitt · Thunder v. United States · United States v. Snider
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally agreed that 'an otherwise inadmissible hearsay statement cannot provide the sole evidentiary support for its own admissibility.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because of the great reliance placed on presentence investigation reports by courts and the Bureau of Prisons and the Parole Commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“bears some peculiar or striking similarity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.