United States v. Franks’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 600 · 1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Emenogha (1993), United States v. Coohey (1993)
28 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · Bourjaily v. United States · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Rita v. United States · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity and also that it was a regular practice of that business activity to make the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“receipt by Franks, ... but only that the packages were received at her address by someone who signed her name.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 803(6) is satisfied if the custodian'demonstrates that a document has been prepared and kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity.'”
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.