United States v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 287 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Bianco (1993), Rein III Ts v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Jso a (1998)
20 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Chapman v. United States · United States v. Motz · Azizi v. Thornburgh · United States v. Osburn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he constitutionality of a statute [or policy] is a legal question subject to de novo review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither the statute nor the Guidelines makes any distinction between live and dead plants or between harvested and unharvested plants”); cf. United States v. Murphy, 979 F.2d 287 , 290 (2nd Cir.1992) (dictum) C'[I]f there is proof that a defendant hás recently harvested ... and the marijuana in his or her possession is the fruit of those poisonous plants, then that individual should be sentenced as if the plants had not yet been harvested.”
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.