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United States v. Ramirez-Ferrer’s Empirical Analysis

82 F.3d 1149 · 1996

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
February 2002
most recently cited

21 federal appellate · 6 district ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on United States v. Olano · Bailey v. United States · Ingalls v. Roosevelt County · Johnson v. Derwinski · United States v. Riascos-Suarez

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “carry” have been adopted recently by a number of other circuit courts. See, e.g. United States v. Ramirez-Ferrer, 82 F.3d 1149 , 1152 (1st Cir.1996) ("Our decision in [United States v. Manning, 79 F.3d 212 (1st Cir.1996), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 117 S.Ct. 147 , 136 L.Ed.2d 93 (1996)] limits the construction of 'carry' to situations in which the 'firearm' has been ‘moved’ or ‘brought along to another place,' since all three parts of the definition adopted there contains this element of transportation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “This standard requires not only that the error be plain ... but also that affirmance would result in a 'miscarriage of justice,' one that would jeopardize public confidence in the integrity of the judicial process.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “was sufficient ... [to convict] under an ordinary and natural meaning of the word ‘carry’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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