United States v. Beamon’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 1009 · 1993
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Schlei (1997), State v. Coffin (1999)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Doggett v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether delay before trial was uncommonly long, whether the government or the criminal defendant is more to blame for that delay, whether, in due course, the defendant asserted his right to a speedy trial, and whether he suffered prejudice as the delay's result.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“show that the period between [accusation] and trial passes a threshold point of presumptively prejudicial delay”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy ... trial.”
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.