United States v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 7 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2021
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · Wellman v. Wellman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lower court [must] follow a ruling made by the reviewing court at an earlier stage of a case, and ... the lower court has no discretion to disregard that duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Etuk v. Slattery“it would be a poor use of judicial resources to require another district judge to take on the resentencing task.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) (citations omitted); Soto-Lopez v. New York City Civil Service Comm'n, 840 F.2d 162 , 167 (2d Cir.1988) (The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Etuk v. Slattery
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.