United States v. Fort’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 542 · 1993
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. James (1994), United States v. Dortch (1993)
28 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Wright v. Wright · Reiter v. Cooper · United States v. Townsend · United States v. Durrive · United States v. Douglas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a buyer-seller instruction would have been inconsistent with the defense position that Mr. Fort was not a buyer at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the government must show both that he knew of the conspiracy and that he intended to join its criminal purpose.”
1 later decision 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.