United States v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 206 · 1993
Citation profile
41 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Deninno (1994), United States v. Spell (1995)
41 federal appellate ·
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. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Patterson v. New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Kashif v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]here must be proof ... to justify the added deprivation of liberty that follows the scoring of the drug as D-methamphetamine.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“apprised of the possibility of multiple meanings during the course of the trial and upon Patrick's objection to the government's scoring of the drug at the sentencing hearing.”
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.