Olsen v. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 1458 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith (1990), Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet Board of Education of Monroe-Woodbury Central School District (1994)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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. § 811 (§ 201 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 871 (§ 501 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an accommodation can be made for a religious organization which uses peyote in circumscribed ceremonies'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]e rest our decision [not to grant an exemption for religious marijuana consumption] on the immensity of the marijuana control problem in the United States....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The listing of peyote as a controlled substance . . . does not apply to the nondrug use of peyote in bona fide religious ceremonies of the Native American Church”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.