United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 1096 · 1995
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Paladino (2005), Maryland Transportation Authority v. King (2002)
80 federal appellate · 5 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Moya-Gomez · United States v. Briscoe · United States v. Burrell · United States v. Goines
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'blended or connected' that it incidentally involves, explains the circumstances surrounding, or tends to prove any element of, the charged crime.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intricately related to the facts of the case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As we have stated before, evidence `concerning the chronological unfolding of events that led to an indictment, or other circumstances surrounding the crime, is not evidence of”
8 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.