United States v. Boissoneault’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 230 · 1991
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Raskin v. Wyatt Co. (1997), United States v. Garcia (2005)
72 federal appellate · 2 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of his arrest, Boissoneault possessed none of the paraphernalia usually possessed by drug dealers, such as scales, beepers, and other devices, nor did he possess any of the materials needed to process cocaine or to package it in druggist folds. Nor was there any evidence that Boissoneault owned a gun or other weapon, which would have helped sustain an inference that he was engaged in the dangerous business of drug trafficking.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“) provides: 25 If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise. 26 A”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“held that experienced narcotics agents may explain the use and meaning of codes and jargon developed by drug dealers to camouflage their activities.”
2 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.