Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 936 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2025
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 23 · Al-Karagholi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · D. C. Transit System, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difficulty we find in petitioners’ argument is that neither the statute nor its legislative history precisely defines the term “currently accepted medical use”; therefore, we are obliged to defer to the Administrator’s interpretation of that phrase if reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jefferson v. State“an unreasonable application of the statutory phrase [for the Administrator] to emphasize the lack of exact scientific knowledge as to the chemical effects of the drug's elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions,”
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.