United States v. Ajmal’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 12 · 1995
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Salameh (1998)
35 federal appellate · 8 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on California v. Green · Maryland v. Craig · Yagow v. United States · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Sims v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extensive advantage of this opportunity to question witnesses, including Ajmal[,].... tainted the trial process by promoting premature deliberation, allowing jurors to express positions through non-fact-clarifying questions, and altering the role of the jury from neutral factfinder to inquisitor and advocate.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he Sentencing Commission intends for culpability to be gauged relative to the elements of the offense of conviction, not simply relative to co-perpetrators.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“fact that [Rozic] played a minor role in his offense vis-a-vis the role of his co-conspirators is insufficient, in and of itself, to justify a two level reduction; [Rozic] must have similarly played a minor role in comparison to the average participant in such a drug crime.”
5 later decisions 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.