United States v. Vanness’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 661 · 1996
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Rockwell International Corp. v. United States (2007)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Kashif v. United States · Octopi, Inc. v. Courtney
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction is a word of many, too many, meanings.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person who stands convicted of an offense under this part shall be sentenced to increased punishment by reason of one or more prior convictions, unless before trial ... the United States attorney files an information with the court (and serves a copy of such information on the person or counsel for the person) stating in writing the previous convictions to be relied upon.... Clerical mistakes in the information may be amended at any time prior to the pronouncement of sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to demand strict compliance with something about which § 851(a)(1) is silent”
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.