United States v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 1312 · 1990
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Chapman v. United States (1991), Neal v. United States (1996)
77 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · United States v. Salerno · Pierce v. Underwood · Bolling v. Sharpe
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Penalties Except as otherwise provided in section 859, 860, or 861 of this title, any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be sentenced as follows: (1)(A) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) of this section involving— (v) 10 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of ly-sergic acid diethylamide (LSD); (B) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) of this section involving— (v) 1 gram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless otherwise specified, the weight of a controlled substance set forth in the [offense level] table refers to the entire weight of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of the controlled substance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mixture or substance containing a detectable amount”
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.