United States v. Derr’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 1330 · 1993
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Boyd (1995), Banks v. Reynolds (1995)
48 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during and in relation to his possession of the drugs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Confrontation Clause violations are found primarily where defendants have been given no realistic opportunity to ferret out a potential source of bias.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.