United States v. Townley’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 1324 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2010
15 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp. · Timberlake v. United States · United States v. Matra
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no evidence when or where the fingerprints [on tape wrapping a bar of cocaine] were made. The police fingerprint expert testified that fingerprints 'can last for a long time’; '[i]t's possible' ‘even as long as a year.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ownership, dominion or control over the contraband itself, or dominion over the premises in which the contraband is concealed.”
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.