United States v. Barial’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 216 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2021
5 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 3607 · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Russello v. United States · United States v. Whyte · United States v. Rivera · United States v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where Congress has chosen different language in proximate subsections of the same statute, courts are obligated to give that choice effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawful to possess a controlled substance.”
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.