United States v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 334 · 1975
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Randall (1999), United States v. Gore (1998)
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 2113 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Prince v. United States · Gavieres v. United States · United States v. Peltier · Maryland ex rel. Levin 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he distribution charge can conceivably be proved without proof of possession.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Except as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally— (1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense, a controlled substance;”
5 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.