United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 236 · 1989
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably United States v. Ocampo (1991), United States v. Vasquez-Chan (1992)
47 federal appellate ·
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. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Marshall v. United States · United States v. Comerford
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nonetheless, 'plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither participation nor guilty knowledge and cooperation.”
3 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.