United States v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 910 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Lindholm (1994), United States v. Allen (1998)
31 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
Relies on United States v. Penagos · United States v. Rubio-Villareal · United States v. Martinez · United States v. Marco L.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are confident that the verdict would have been the same”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government does not have to prove the existence of a formal agreement[;][r]ather, it can prove the existence of a conspiracy through circumstantial evidence that defendants acted together in pursuit of a common illegal goal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plainly serve[s] to clarify pre-existing law, rather than to alter it,”
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.