United States v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 712 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1997
13 federal appellate · 9 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 Ross v. United States · United States v. Wokkopich · Lewis v. United States · United States v. Tony S. Hernandez, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Sergio T. Ramos
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled substance, whether or not there exists an agency relationship.”
3 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.