United States v. Robins’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 1387 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Daas (1999), United States v. Innie (1993)
30 federal appellate · 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chapman v. United States · Calder v. Job · Taylor v. Freeland · United States v. Fine · United States v. Wilson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant claims that because the 192 grams of liquid solution was not yet readily marketable, it should not have been used by the district court to find that he possessed more than 100 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine. Defendant’s argument directly contradicts the terms of section 841(b)(l)(B)(viii), which says the mandatory minimum applies to offenses involving “100 grams ... of a mixture ... containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine .... ” Since the statute conspicuously does not say 100 grams of a “marketable mixture,” it would appear to encompass any mixture. Defendant, with his 192 gram amphetamine solution, falls within the statute’s terms. And we do not find any language in the legislative history that requires us to read the phrase “a mixture or substance” to mean “a [readily marketable] mixture or substance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. The court reasoned that under the plain dictionary meaning of the term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“solution facilitated the distribution of the methamphetamine”
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.