United States v. Maxon’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.3d 656 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2024
10 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 Foss v. Foss · In re Rivera · United States v. Ortega · Kostelec v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · United States v. Howard
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after a prior conviction for a felony drug offense has become final ... shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 20 years and not more than life imprisonment ... [with an additional term of] supervised release of at least 10 years in addition to such term of imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the rules of this circuit, we are `free to cho[o]se which line of cases to follow.'”
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.