United States v. Adrian’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 486 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably United States v. Merriweather (1996), United States v. Gantt (1999)
30 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3731
Relies on United States v. Wilson · United States v. Loud Hawk · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · Mabry v. Johnson · United States v. Helstoski
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal by the United States shall lie to a court of appeals from a decision or order of a district court suppressing or excluding evidence or requiring the return of seized property in a criminal proceeding, not made after the defendant has been put in jeopardy and before the verdict or finding on an indictment or information, if the United States attorney certifies to the district court that the appeal is not taken for purpose of delay and that the evidence is a substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have consistently held that evidence of a defendant's prior possession or sale of narcotics is relevant under Rule 404(b) to [the] issue[ ] of intent ... in prosecutions for possession of, importation of, and intent to distribute narcotics”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'substantial proof of a fact material' in a way that facilitates rather than hinders the government's ability to seek review in this court.”
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.