Xiulu Ruan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2022
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 885 (§ 515 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Patterson v. New York · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he definition of the elements of a criminal offense is entrusted to the legislature, particularly in the case of federal crimes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the degree of knowledge necessary to make a person criminally responsible for his or her acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“X-Citement Video, 513 U.S. at 72 , and that”
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.