Few v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Daniels v. State (1988), Beck v. State (1985)
1 district · 24 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)
Relies on Ingraham v. Wright · American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Standley v. State · United States v. Walton · United States v. Kelly
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) “Synthetic equivalents of the substances contained" (i) “in the plant. . . Cannabis, sp. . . . , or” (ii) “in the resinous extractives of Cannabis, sp. and/or” (b) “[S]ynthetic substances, derivatives, and/or their isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Johnny O.““Similarly, we conclude that an indictment for possession of THC may allege either ‘other than marihuana,’ or allege ‘penalty group 2,’ either of which is sufficient to determine the jurisdiction of the court to try the case.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellerbee v. State“Article 725b, V.A.P.C., 1925 as amended. But as learning improved and synthetic drugs were developed and abused, legislative bodies enacted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.