United States v. Alerre’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 681 · 2005
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Smith (2006), United States v. Warshak (2010)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Booker · Glasser v. United States · Blakely v. Washington · Pinkerton 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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence that a physician consistently failed to follow generally recognized procedures tends to show that in prescribing drugs he was not acting as a healer but as a seller of wares.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence that a reasonable finder of fact could accept as adequate and sufficient to support a conclusion of a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n contrast to the criminal standard, a medical malpractice plaintiff in South Carolina must show in a civil case (1) `the generally recognized practices and procedures that would be exercised by competent practitioners in a defendant doctor's field of medicine under the same or similar circumstances,' and (2) `that the defendant doctor departed from the recognized and generally accepted standards, practices, and procedures.'”
1 later decision 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.