People v. Salcedo’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2021
12 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
Relies on People v. Abbott · United States v. Foster · United States v. Williams · United States v. Hernandez-Cuartas · United States v. Jones
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1D)(@) ... [It is unlawful for any person knowingly to ... possess, or to possess with intent to ... distribute a controlled substance.... (2) ... [Alny person who violates any of the provisions of subsection (1) of this seetion: (a) In the case of a controlled substance listed in schedule I or II of part 2 of this article, commits: (I) A class 3 felony; except that a person commits a class 4 felony if such violation is based on the possession of a controlled substance listed in schedule II unless otherwise provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (8) of this section; ... (3)(a) ... [Alny person convicted pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section for knowingly ... possessing, or possessing with intent to ... distribute ... an amount that is or has been represented to be: (I) At least twenty-five grams or one ounce but less than four hundred fifty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains a schedule I or schedule II controlled substance ... shall be sentenced to the department of corrections for at least the minimum term of incarceration in the presumptive range provided for such offense in section 18-1-105(1)(a) ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Graham“defendant is a drug smuggler because his or her behavior or appearance was similar to that exhibited by drug smugglers who have been previously encountered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ramirez
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.