United States v. Apex Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 1287 · 1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2021
4 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. Bass · McBoyle v. United States · United States v. Granderson · Wilshire Westwood Associates v. Atlantic Richfield Corp. · Cose v. Getty Oil Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the face of uncertainty as to the meaning of what is forbidden, the rule of lenity requires dismissal of count one of the indictment.”
2 later decisions 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.