United States v. Knights’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1483 · 1992
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. Bushert (1993), United States v. Moore (2000)
54 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Wade v. United States · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · United States v. Rexach
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[defendant must first allege that he or she believes the government is acting in bad faith. Such an allegation is necessary to require the prosecutor to explain briefly the government’s reasons for refusing to make a downward motion. Inasmuch as a defendant will generally have no knowledge of the prosecutor’s reasons, at this first or pleading step the defendant should have no burden to make any showing of prosecutorial bad faith. Following the government’s explanation, the second step imposes on defendant the requirement of making a showing of bad faith sufficient to trigger some form of hearing on that issue.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial assistance ... in the investigation or prosecution of another person who has committed an offense,”
3 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.