United States v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.3d 621 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Collington (2006), United States v. Pope (2006)
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3553 · 28 U.S.C. § 994 · 28 U.S.C. § 995 · 42 U.S.C. § 7661A
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Olano · Blakely v. Washington · Johnson v. United States · Collins v. City of Harker Heights
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an error occurred; (2) the error was obvious or clear; (3) the error affected his substantial rights; and (4) the error seriously affected the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the judicial proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The government charged Martin with five offenses relating to the production of methamphetamine, all of which stem from two incidents in late 2003. On November 24th of that year, Martin, who was on supervised release for previous methamphetamine offenses, rented a hotel room outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Law enforcement officers learned of a possible methamphetamine laboratory at the hotel and arrested five people found in a room rented by Christi Kinsey. Among those people was Genea Davis, Martin’s girlfriend, who consented to a search of the room that she was sharing with Martin. In that room, the officers discovered a hot plate, Coleman fuel, jars with multi-layered liquids, antifreeze, and a 1,000 milliliter flask-all materials commonly found in methamphetamine labs. Subsequent tests confirmed that at least some of the materials had been used to produce methamphetamine. The government learned from Davis that several of the articles recovered at the hotel belonged to Rory Shankles, another known formulator of methamphetamine. Davis then led police to Shankles’s residence, a location where Davis reported having seen Shankles and Martin “cooking” methamphetamine two days earlier. Police obtained a warrant and searched the premises, recovering 24 empty bottles of pseudoephedrine, an over-the-counter decongestant that is also a raw material used to manufacture methamphetamine. Those bot- ties, when full, contained approximately 51 grams of pseudoephedrine. The second incid”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That report 'indicate[d] that the actual yield of methamphetamine from ... pseudoephedrine is typically in the range of 50 to 75[%].' " Id. (alteration by court) (quoting Proposed Amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines, 66 Fed. Reg. 7962 , 7965 (Jan. 26, 2001) ) (citing U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, App. C, Amendment 611 ("This yield is based on information provided by the [DEA] that the typical yield of these substances for clandestine laboratories is 50 to 75[%].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mealor
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.