United States v. Mera’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 18 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
14 federal appellate · 2 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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · United States v. Tortora · United States v. Pastor · United States v. Reiter · United States v. Hernandez
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant's intentional absence from criminal proceedings, when he is aware that he is the subject of such proceedings, may be tantamount to a voluntary waiver of his right to be present at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kirk v. Dutton
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.