United States v. Throckmorton’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 1069 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 1166 - People v. Carter (2003), In Re Davis (2004)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Olano · Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Atkinson · Walton v. Arizona
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant must show that the core of the codefendant's defense is so irreconcilable with the core of his own defense that the acceptance of the codefendant's theory by the jury precludes acquittal of the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere existence of antagonism between defenses `or the desire of one defendant to exculpate himself by inculpating a codefendant . . . is insufficient to [compel separate trials].'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant seeking a reversal by reason of a district court's denial of a motion to sever must establish that the prejudice he suffered from the joint trial was so `clear, manifest or undue' that he was denied a fair trial.”
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.