United States v. Dotson’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 1318 · 1989
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Clark (1991), United States v. August (1992)
24 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · United States v. Powell · Dunn 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to use any communication facility in committing or in causing or facilitating the commission of any act or acts constituting a felony under any provision of this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a jury may reasonably infer intent to distribute drugs from the manner in which the drugs are packaged”
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.