United States v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.3d 39 · 2011
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Bass · Bifulco v. United States · Marcello v. Bonds · Boyle v. United States · United States v. Sepulveda
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty ... incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“possess[ion] with intent to distribute narcotics”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.