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Xiulu Ruan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
4
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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
  3. “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.