United States v. Clary’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 709 · 1994
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably United States v. Farmer (1996), United States v. Steen (1995)
73 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Cannon v. United States · Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A neutral law that disproportionately impacts a racial minority does not violate equal protection ... unless that impact can be traced to a discriminatory purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a unique and unprecedented problem for American narcotics enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inevitability or foreseeability of the consequence of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.