United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 1014 · 1977
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably United States v. Warner (1982), United States v. Green (1981)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Babich v. United States · Perez v. United States · Bozza v. United States · Cole 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] major portion of the traffic in controlled substances flows through interstate and foreign commerce. Incidents of the traffic which are not an integral part of the interstate or foreign flow, such as the manufacture, local distribution, and possession, nonetheless have a substantial and direct effect upon interstate commerce — (A) after manufacture, many controlled substances are transported in interstate commerce; (B) controlled substances distributed locally usually have been transported in interstate commerce immediately before their distribution, and (C) controlled substances possessed commonly flow through interstate commerce immediately prior to such possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearson v. McCaffrey“contribute to swelling the interstate traffic in such substances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Local distribution and possession of controlled substances,”
1 later decision 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.