United States v. Doyal’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 271 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1996
13 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Holland v. United States · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of 21 USC Section 174 is to stamp out all the traffic in narcotics in the United States except for the legitimate medical purposes by preventing uncontrolled drug importation.””
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.