United States v. Mora’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 76 · 1989
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Ocampo (1991), United States v. Stauffer (1990)
48 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Bell v. United States · Prince v. United States · United States v. Bell · Hanil Bank v. Michelman · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“review the sufficiency of evidence ... to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice or for plain error.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]ossession of a large quantity of narcotics alone may be sufficient to support a finding that one knowingly possessed the heroin.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The act of importation [of heroin] stands independent of the planned eventual distribution in this country, and hence should be punished separately.”
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.