United States v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 116 · 2003
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Saucier (2007), United States v. Arnold (2007)
59 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Johnson v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · Bunce v. United States
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nvolving has expansive connotations ... encompassing ... offenses that are related to or connected with [distributing, manufacturing, or possessing.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an entire class of state offenses `involving' certain activities, namely `manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture or distribute' a controlled substance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.”
3 later decisions 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.