United States v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 355 · 1991
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably United States v. Copeland (2003), United States v. Jenkins (1993)
67 federal appellate · 1 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Green v. United States · Bourjaily v. United States
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a conspiracy existed, that the accused knew of the conspiracy, and that he knowingly and voluntarily joined it.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he connection of the defendant to the conspiracy need only be slight, if there is sufficient evidence to establish that connection beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] trier of fact may infer knowledge of and participation in the common purpose and plan of a conspiracy based on defendant's actions and reactions to the circumstances,”
7 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.