United States v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 1008 · 1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1997
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense defined in this sub-chapter is punishable by imprisonment or fine or both which may not exceed the maximum punishment prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) to manufacture, distribute or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance;”
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.