United States v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 1422 · 1992
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States of America v. Dennis McClatchey (2000), United States v. Edwards (1995)
62 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · Carnegie 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a conspiracy is proven by a preponderance of the evidence; (2) the declarant and the defendant were both members of the conspiracy; and (3) the statements were made in the course and furtherance of the conspiracy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant is accountable for the quantity of drugs within the scope of the conspiracy and reasonably foreseeable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a defendant's actions facilitated the endeavors of other coconspirators or facilitated the venture as a whole,”
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.