United States v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1225 · 1991
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Story (2006), United States of America v. Alfredo Martinez (2001)
68 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · United States v. Harriss · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey
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.
“This court has repeatedly held that any break in the chain of custody of physical evidence does not render the evidence inadmissible but instead goes to the weight that the jury should accord that evidence. Once the trial court makes a preliminary determination that a jury could reasonably conclude that the disputed authenticity has been established, the district judge may admit the evidence at his discretion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“21 U.S.C. § 841 (b)(l)(A)(viii)— ... such person [violating subsection (a)] shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years or more than life. 21 U.S.C. § 841 (b)(l)(B)(viii)— ... such person [violating subsection (a)] shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 5 years and not more than 40 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This court has repeatedly held that any break in the chain of custody of physical evidence does not render the evidence inadmissible but instead goes to the weight that the jury should accord that evidence.”
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.