United States v. Culps’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.3d 1069 · 2002
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Ritchie (2003), United States v. Kilby (2006)
20 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Walton · United States v. Williams · United States v. Matthews · United States v. Collado
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“similar transactions in controlled substances by the defendant " (emphasis added)). 25 In contrast, the district court in this case based its approximation on the weights of Foxy tablets seized in two unrelated cases from different parts of the country. Based on these circumstances, there is no reliable way to know whether the Foxy tablets in this case had a similar weight to the tablets in the other cases. The government presented no evidence that Kilby's case was in any way related to these other Foxy cases, such as evidence of a common supplier. Nor did it present any evidence that Foxy tablets are always the same approximate size. To the contrary, the statistical "sample”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the government is required to prove the approximate quantity by a preponderance of the evidence ... [which means that] [t]he district court must conclude that the defendant is more likely than not actually responsible for a quantity greater than or equal to the quantity for which the defendant is being held responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sentence depends in large part upon the amount of drugs ... and approximation is by definition imprecise, the district court must err on the side of caution”
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.