United States v. Ramirez-Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 772 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Carranza (2002), United States v. Vizcarra-Martinez (1995)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on United States v. Jewell · United States v. Douglass · United States v. Klein · United States v. Normandeau · United States v. Hoyt
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if he believes he has some controlled substance in his possession.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jury affidavits should be admitted to show that the jurors did not believe Ramirez-Ramirez knew he had cocaine rather than marijuana in his possession. Again, this finding would not affect the verdict or the sentence in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exact nature of the substance with which he was dealing.”
2 later decisions 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.