United States v. Arellanes’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 1353 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Doganiere v. United States (1990), State v. Wagstaff (1990)
24 federal appellate · 3 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Cherek v. United States · United States v. Arnett · Farrow 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vast amount of judicial discretion in the imposition of special parole terms has not been found to violate the due process clause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the original term of imprisonment shall be increased by the period of the special parole term and the resulting new term of imprisonment shall not be diminished by the time which was spent on special parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the special parole term provision of 21 U.S.C. § 841 offends no constitutional guarantee.”
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.