Minor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
544 federal appellate · 29 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 666 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch (1994), United States v. Freed (1971)
544 federal appellate · 29 district · 18 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
reviewedUnited States v. Minor (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 501 · 26 U.S.C. § 4701 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Leary v. United States · Marchetti v. United States · United States v. Darby · Grosso v. United States · Rogers 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 666 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * first horn of this dilemma does not confront the seller. In the face of the buyer’s refusal to secure the order form, the option of making a legal sale under federal law is foreclosed by the buyer’s decision, and ‘full and literal compliance’ with the law by the seller means simply that he cannot sell at all.” 396 U.S. at 92-93 , 90 S.Ct. at 287 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person whether or not required to pay a special tax and register under sections 4751 to 4735, inclusive, to transfer marihuana, except in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom such marihuana is transferred, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the Secretary or his delegate. (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(a) Genera] requirement. — It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter, exchange, or give away narcotic drugs except in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom such article is sold, bartered, exchanged, or given, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the Secretary or his delegate.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.