United States v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 508 · 1991
Citation profile
56 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Adipietro (1993), United States v. Jones (2008)
56 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Joseph v. United States · Rita v. United States · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not elicit an ambiguous or unclear verdict from the jury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A conspiracy ordinarily consists of two or more persons in an agreement to commit an offense plus an act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence at trial is not clear as to which of two alternative drugs were involved in a multi-drug conspiracy,”
2 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.