United States v. Trottier’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002 · most notably Solorio v. United States (1987), United States v. Middleton (1981)
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 831 · 10 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ohio v. Roberts · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For instance, it would not appear that use of marihuana by a serviceperson on a lengthy period of leave away from the military community would have such an effect on the military as to warrant the invocation of a claim of special military interest and significance adequate to support court-martial jurisdiction under O’Callahan. Similarly, the interest of the military in the sale of a small amount of a contraband substance by a military person to a civilian for the latter’s personal use seems attenuated. See United States v. Morley, 20 U.S.C.M.A. 179 , 43 C.M.R. 19 (1970).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n considering the scope of military jurisdiction, the prospect cannot be ignored that prosecution of those servicepersons who possess, use, and distribute drugs off post will tend to dry up sources of drugs for others who would use them on or near a military installation to the detriment of the military mission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The appellant stood ready, willing, and able to sell to a fellow serviceman large quantities of marihuana and drugs for that serviceman to take back to his installation for use and sale; and the instant charges stem from the initial steps in that process. Such conduct is inimical to a fit and ready armed force; and it is, under those circumstances, appropriately subject to prosecution and punishment by the military.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.