United States v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 1509 · 1995
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Glover (1996), United States v. Canales (1996)
22 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Chapman v. United States · West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service · Estrella v. Brown · United States v. McAlpine
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny reference to a particular controlled substance in these guidelines includes all salts, isomers, and all salts of isomers.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). We explained the underlying factual conclusion that d,l-methamphetamine contains d-methamphetamine and l-methamphetamine: 15 Here, the government expert explained, and defense counsel acknowledged, that methamphetamine may be manufactured through two distinct methods: the 1-ephedrine method, which produces d-methamphetamine, and the P2P method, which produces d,1-methamphetamine. Defendant here used the P2P method, and thereby produced a single substance that was not merely a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“refer to the weight of the controlled substance, itself, contained in the mixture or substance. For example, a mixture weighing 10 grams containing PCP at 50% purity contains 5 grams of PCP (actual). 31 U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(c) n.B. The drug quantity table provides different base offense levels for methamphetamine and methamphetamine (actual). The district court is to”
2 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.