United States v. Solivan’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 1146 · 1991
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Carroll (1994), Byrd v. Collins (2000)
104 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 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. § 1952 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Berger v. United States · United States v. Hasting · Fahy v. Connecticut · Illinois v. Somerville
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless calculated to incite the passions and prejudices of the jurors, appeals to the jury to act as the community conscience are not per se impermissible.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And I'm asking you to tell her and all of the other drug dealers like her that we don't want that stuff in Northern Kentucky ...”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct the jurors' desires to end a social problem toward convicting a particular defendant.”
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.