United States v. Tomasi’s Empirical Analysis
313 F.3d 653 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2021
6 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Anderson v. United States · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts have a duty to refrain from deciding issues whose resolution is not necessary to the disposition of a case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.