United States v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 49 · 1951
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1980 · most notably Johnson v. United States (1963), United States v. Valencia (1980)
29 federal appellate · 5 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 Sorrells v. United States · United States v. Becker · Butts v. United States · United States v. Chiarella · Newman v. 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find ourselves in accord with the opinion by Judge Learned Hand in United States v. Chiarella, supra, where he quotes from an earlier opinion of the court written by him. United States v. Becker, 2 Cir., 62 F.2d 1007 : ‘We said then, * * * that it was not a defence if the accused was already engaged (1) in “an existing course of similar criminal conduct”; (2) had “already formed a design to commit the crime or similar crimes”; or (3) was willing to do so “as evinced by ready complaisance.” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As we understand his contention, Perkins says that Riley was first entrapped and hence the entire transaction was vitiated ab initio, and that the defense of entrapment is likewise available to him. The mere statement of the proposition condemns 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.