United States v. Ferrarini’s Empirical Analysis
219 F.3d 145 · 2000
Citation profile
37 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Kagan v. United States (2001), United States v. Quattrone (2006)
37 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 Cupp v. Naughten · Mistretta v. United States · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · In re Oliver · Rock v. Arkansas
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Financial institution,” as used in this guideline, is defined to include any institution described in 18 U.S.C. §§ 20 , 656, 657, 1005-1007, and 1014; any state or foreign bank, trust company, credit union, insurance company, investment company, mutual fund, savings (building and loan) association, union or employee pension fund; any health, medical or hospital insurance association; brokers and dealers registered, or required to be registered, with the Securities and Exchange Commission; futures commodity merchants and commodity pool operators registered, or required to be registered, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and any similar entity, whether or not insured by the federal government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the evidence is such that a rational juror may reach [the] conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt. . . . that [the defendant] was aware of a high probability [of the fact in dispute] and consciously avoided confirming that fact'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In such circumstances, a conscious avoidance instruction to the jury `permits a finding of knowledge even where there is no evidence that the defendant possessed actual knowledge.'”
3 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.