Pulsifer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 801 (Military Justice Act of 1968) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 960 · 34 U.S.C. § 20101
Relies on Gall v. United States · Rita v. United States · Russello v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a given statute, the same term usually has the same meaning and different terms usually have different meanings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]onjunctions are versatile words, which can work differently depending on context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I didn't like his mother and I didn't like his father ...”
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.