United States v. Easterling’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 1073 · 1990
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably United States v. Ivy (1996), United States v. Robertson (1995)
107 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Lewis v. Adamson · United States v. Beaulieu · United States v. Rutter · United States v. Reid
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the information upon which the estimates are based has a minimum indicia of reliability.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction.”
3 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.