United States v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 412 · 1991
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Davis (1994), United States v. Kissick (1995)
55 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Huddleston v. United States · Brock v. Pierce County · United States v. Wiegand
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e conclude that . . . the Commission must have intended the term `cocaine base' to include `crack,' or `rock cocaine,'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicating that 'cocaine base' refers to cocaine that is a 'base' for chemistry purposes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Senate and the House each had a version of a bill to amend 21 U.S.C. § 841 (b). The House version provided tougher penalties for “cocaine freebase,” while the Senate version provided penalties for “cocaine base.” Congress ultimately enacted the Senate version by incorporating it into H.R. 5484, which became the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.”
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.