United States v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 26 · 1952
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Sanabria v. United States (1978), United States v. Kenny (1972)
74 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Nye & Nissen v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Bruno v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Marino v. United 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the existence of a conspiracy is clearly established, slight evidence may be sufficient to connect a defendant with it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While a prosecution for one conspiracy is no bar to a prosecution for participation in another, a single conspiracy cannot be split up for the purpose of prosecution.””
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.