United States v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 1545 · 1991
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Simmons (1992), United States v. Church (1992)
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3552 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts · Bourjaily v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statement by a coconspirator of a party during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy”
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.