United States v. Lim’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 331 · 1993
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Lennick (1994), United States v. Frederick (1996)
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Testimony of an accomplice, if believed, is sufficient to sustain a conviction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“admission of drug courier profile evidence is inherently prejudicial to the defendant because the profile may suggest that innocuous events indicate criminal activity, [and we have] denounced the use of a drug courier profile as substantive evidence of a defendant's innocence or guilt,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause exists when the police have reasonably trustworthy information sufficient to lead a prudent person to believe that the accused has committed or is committing a crime.”
4 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.