United States v. Levay’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 671 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
12 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · Fischer v. United States · Barrett 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. “Mixture or substance” as used in this guideline has the same meaning as in 21 U.S.C. § 841 , except as expressly provided. Mixture or substance does not include materials that must be separated from the controlled substance before the controlled substance can be used. ... If such material cannot readily be separated from the mixture or substance that appropriately is counted in the Drug Quantity Table, the court may use any reasonable method to approximate the weight of the mixture or substance to be counted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Magness“the disputed material here has to be separated from the remaining liquid before it can be used”
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.