United States v. Phillip McCutchen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that extrapolating 15 weighed and tested vials to 104 untested vials to charge defendant with 9.866 grams of crack cocaine was permissible
• holding the method of testing sufficiently reliable where the chemist testified that the procedure followed “was the accepted methodology among the chemists working in the Philadelphia Police Department”
• upholding processing technique to determine drug quantity for sentencing where the government extrapolated from a test sample

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Michael Dent
  Third Circuit· 1998-07-06· cited 399×
• United States v. Michael L. Jackson
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-11-30· cited 125×
• United States v. Rickie Albert Scalia
  First Circuit· 1993-05-21· cited 58×
• United States v. Rivera Maldonado
  First Circuit· 1999-10-20· cited 55×
• United States v. Donald Raven
  Third Circuit· 1994-10-31· cited 39×
• United States v. Self
  Third Circuit· 2012-05-30· cited 29×
• United States v. Kevin Mack
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-11-15· cited 19×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Ohio, Fourth District, Lawrence County· 2017-11-22· cited 12×
• United States v. Patrick Titus
  Third Circuit· 2023-08-22· cited 12×
• United States v. Donte Jacobs
  Third Circuit· 2021-12-16· cited 9×
• State v. Garnett
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2013-11-12· cited 6×
• United States v. Lee
  Third Circuit· 2009-07-27· cited 5×
• United States v. Skodnek
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-06-12· cited 4×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1998-12-23· cited 4×
• United States v. Christopher Yates
  Seventh Circuit· 2024-04-11· cited 1×
• United States v. Scalia
  First Circuit· 1993-05-21
• United States v. Jackson
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-11-30
• United States v. Stoddart
  Third Circuit· 2002-09-12
• United States v. Shawn Connelly
  Seventh Circuit· 2024-04-11

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. John W. McDowell Jr.
  Third Circuit· 1989-10-25· cited 205×
• United States v. Innocent U. Uwaeme
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-11-02· cited 177×
• United States v. Anthony M. Miele John Jay McElfresh Charles J. Walters Patrick T. Reinstadtler James F. Foster, Anthony M. Miele
  Third Circuit· 1993-03-22· cited 159×
• United States v. Dale R. Gurgiolo
  Third Circuit· 1990-02-13· cited 29×
• United States v. Steven Pirre
  Second Circuit· 1991-03-05· cited 20×