United States v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 601 · 1995
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Prou v. United States (1999), United States v. Hansley (1995)
25 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Florida Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 849 (§ 409 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Watson 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if two or more prior drug felony convictions result from acts forming a single criminal episode, they should be treated as a single conviction for sentencing enhancement under section 841(b)(1)(A).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after two or more prior convictions for a felony drug offense have become final.”
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.