United States v. Angulo’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 202 · 1991
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Solis (2002), United States v. Mergerson (1993)
57 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 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 Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Pierce · United States v. Alfaro · United States v. Flores
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If information is presented to the sentencing judge with which the defendant would take issue, the defendant bears the burden of demonstrating that the information cannot be relied upon because it is materially untrue, inaccurate or unreliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he district court need only determine its factual findings at sentencing by a preponderance of the relevant and sufficiently reliable evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.