United States v. Ramirez-Ferrer’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 1131 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably United States v. Cabaccang (2003), Tanca v. Nordberg (1996)
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 951 (Controlled Substances Import and Export Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 955 · 43 U.S.C. § 1332
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Bailey v. United States · Leary v. United States · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government’s broad reading of clause 2 ... brings any conduct conceivably addressed under clause 1 within the coverage of clause 2. In other words, any contraband shipped from a place inside the United States (but not within the customs territory — e.g., the U.S. Virgin Islands) would first pass through international waters before it entered into the customs territory of the United States.... Hence, the government’s reading of clause 2 renders clause 1 completely superfluous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“UNCOLS”), recognizes twelve (12) nautical miles as the boundary of its territorial waters. See United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Dec. 10, 1982, § 2, art. 3, 1833 U.N.T.S. 3, 401, 21 I.L.M. 1245, available at United Nations web-page, chttp:// www.un.org /Depts/los/convention_agree-ments/ convention_overview_convention>. Although the U.S. Senate has not yet ratified UNCOLS, the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he key to the 'whole act' approach is that all provisions and other features of the enactment must be given force”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.