State v. Rao’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Horton v. Meskill (1977), State v. Hernandez (1987)
54 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)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Douglas v. People of State of California · Dunn v. Blumstein · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“multifarious political, economic and social considerations that usually underlie. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.