United States v. Ogando’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 146 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2025
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Garrett v. United States · Delaware v. New York
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have declined to delineate bright-line rules for determining when such interrogatories should be employed or in what form. Nor have we promulgated a checklist of criteria that district courts are bound to consider. Rather, we commit the decision of whether and how to utilize special interrogatories in such cases to the broad discretion of the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ultimate decision whether to use special interrogatories in criminal RICO cases is left to the discretion of the trial judge.... Neither the prosecutor nor the defendant has the right to insist on their use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.