United States v. Kimmons’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1011 · 1990
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. Edwards (1991)
38 federal appellate · 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. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Stafford v. Oklahoma
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he relationship of buyer and seller absent any prior or contemporaneous understanding beyond the mere sales agreement does not prove a conspiracy”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of a buyer-seller relationship, standing alone, is insufficient to support a conspiracy conviction. * * * The buy-sell transaction is simply not probative of an agreement to join together to accomplish a criminal objective beyond that already being accomplished by the transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'not every delay in the appeal of a case, even an inordinate one, violates due process.'”
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.