United States v. Ruff’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 635 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably United States v. Eastland (1993), United States v. Frydenlund (1993)
13 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)
Relies on United States v. Leon · Scherl v. Fisher · Rita v. United States · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · United States v. Mourning
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“100 grams or more of methamphetamine ... or 1 kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine” were involved; (2) five to forty years if”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[njothing suggested either that the conspirators would not continue in their operation or that the laboratory would be moved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Miller“the entire weight of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of the controlled substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.