United States v. Malbrough’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 458 · 1990
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Galloway (1992), United States v. Townley (1991)
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Franks v. Delaware · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the government knew of and acquiesced in the intrusive conduct,”
1 later decision 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.