Burgess v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 31 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 352 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Johnson v. United States (2010), Johnson v. United States (2010)
126 federal appellate · 31 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Burgess (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 101 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005) · 15 U.S.C. § 1672 (Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2266 (§ 40221 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3559 · 2 U.S.C. § 1301 (Congressional Accountability Act of 1995) · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Colautti v. Franklin · Bifulco v. United States · Callanan v. United States · United States v. Shabani
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 352 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an offense that is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year under any law of the United States or of a State or foreign country that prohibits or restricts conduct relating to narcotic drugs, marihuana, anabolic steroids, or depressant or stimulant substances.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statutory definitions control the meaning of statutory words ... in the usual case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a rule [a] definition which declares what a term 'means' ... excludes any meaning that is not stated.”
4 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.