United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 535 · 1988
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 8 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Arizona v. Fulminante (1991), Todd Hiivala v. Tana Wood (1999)
197 federal appellate · 8 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 960
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Russell · McNabb v. United States · Sorrells v. United States
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“acceptance of one party's defense will preclude the acquittal of the other party.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government agents engineer and direct the criminal enterprise from start to finish,”
9 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.