United States v. Pepe’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.2d 838 · 1957
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Feguer v. United States (1962), Hall v. United States (1969)
31 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · McDonald v. United States · United States v. Jeffers · Kremen v. United States · Alcorta v. Texas
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his own weight into the scales against the defendant.”
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.