United States v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 1372 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Stewart (2002), United States v. Dale (1993)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 12 U.S.C. § 3401 (Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978) · 12 U.S.C. § 3405 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Franks v. Delaware · Williams v. United States · Pelaes v. United States · Lawrence v. United States · Mitan 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will reverse ... only if [we] conclude[ ] that a reasonable fact-finder must have entertained a reasonable doubt about the government's proof of one of the offense's essential elements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a conspiracy has been proved, even slight evidence connecting a defendant to the conspiracy is sufficient to support his conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be established by circumstantial evidence, including possession of a large quantity of controlled substance.”
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.