United States v. Yusuff’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.3d 982 · 1996
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Jerez (1997), United States of America v. Clarence Richardson Jr (2000)
60 federal appellate · 3 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)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] factfinder's choice between two permissible choices cannot be clearly erroneous,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e must accept the [judge's determination] unless it is contrary to the laws of nature, or is so inconsistent or improbable on its face that no reasonable fact-finder could accept it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trial judge's . . . choice of whom to believe is conclusive on the appellate court unless the judge credits exceedingly improbable testimony.”
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.