United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.3d 785 · 2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023
7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 861 (§ 420 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Mistretta v. United States · United States v. LaBonte · United States v. Hill · United States v. Butler · United States v. Kravchuk
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.
“[t]his amendment implements the directive in Section 140008 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (pertaining to the use of a minor in the commission of an offense) in a slightly broader form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by . . . ignoring Congress's focus on age.”
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.