United States v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 608 · 1989
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Torres (1990), United States v. Scarpa (1990)
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Rubin 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[D]eterminations of relevance are entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his decision will not be overturned unless he has acted arbitrarily or irrationally.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice”
2 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.