United States v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 1194 · 1996
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2014
17 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co. · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · San Vicente Medical Partners, Ltd. v. Orr
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing in [§ 2D1.1(c) (n.* (E)) ] ... suggests that [its] application depends upon whether the marijuana plants are harvested before or after authorities apprehend the grower”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we apply the guidelines in effect at the time of a defendant's sentencing hearing.”
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.