United States v. Beszborn’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 62 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Rogers (1997), United States v. Avants (2004)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · United States v. Halper · Doggett 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[v]ague assertions of lost witnesses, faded memories, or misplaced documents are insufficient.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for the Double Jeopardy Clause to have any application, there must be actions by a sovereign, which place an individual twice in jeopardy. The Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply to actions involving private individuals.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the information ... could not otherwise be obtained from other sources.”
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.