United States of America v. Frederick Tropeano’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.3d 653 · 2001
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Saget (2004), SCS Communications, Inc. v. Herrick Co. (2004)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Williamson v. United States · Litwak v. Oscar Productions, Inc. · United States v. Casamento · Anderson v. Branen · Bridgers 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Authentication of course merely renders [evidence] admissible, leaving the issue of ... ultimate reliability to the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur upholding the authentication of tapes by establishing a chain of custody in the absence of testimony by a contemporaneous witness to the recorded conversations does not imply, as appellant suggests, that such a witness cannot provide equally sufficient authentication without proof of a chain of custody.”
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.