United States v. Ramey’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bifulco v. United States · Pollard v. United States · Welsh v. United States
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Being illegal, such sentence is void, and the Court has the power and the duty to expunge the void sentence and, at the appropriate time, pronounce a lawful sentence on such defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phon v. Com. of Ky.
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.