DePierre v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
564 U.S. 70 · 2011
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Valle (2015), United States v. Thomas (2019)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Kimbrough v. United States · Smith v. United States · United States v. Montoya De Hernandez · Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when there is no 'settled meaning'-scientific or otherwise”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress intended it to have its established meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That we may rue inartful legislative drafting, however, does not excuse us from the responsibility of construing a statute as faithfully as possible to its actual text.”
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.