United States v. Acevedo’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 607 · 1989
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably United States v. Restrepo (1991), United States v. McNeese (1990)
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · United States v. Horton
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the quantity of the controlled substance is a sentencing issue unrelated to a defendant's underlying guilt....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the case of a violation ... involving 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of ... cocaine, ... such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 5 years....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.