United States v. Ansaldi’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.3d 118 · 2004
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Snype (2006), United States v. Polouizzi (2009)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 813 (§ 203 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Kolender v. Lawson · Bell v. United States · Braverman v. United States · United States v. Bishop
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, courts apply the so-called `Blockburger test' to determine whether or not two charged offenses constitute different crimes. That analysis is inappropriate in this case, because there is only one statute at issue, and so, nothing to compare. Rather than determining whether one act falls within two distinct statutes, as in Blockburger , we are asking whether two acts constitute one statutory offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he primary problem is that the jury can convict on both counts, resulting in two punishments for the same crime in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment”) (internal citations omitted) (citing additional authorities). See generally”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not determinative whether the same conduct underlies the counts; rather, it is critical whether the 'offense'-in the legal sense, as defined by Congress-complained of in one count is the same as that charged in another.”
2 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.