United States v. Romano’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 202 · 1960
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Thompson v. State (1972), United States v. Valencia (1980)
28 federal appellate · 4 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 Roviaro v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Masciale v. United States · United States v. Gernie
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [I]f the initiator of the criminal activity is not a government agent the defense of entrapment does not apply. On the record there is no basis for any claim that Bill was acting for the government. On the contrary, all the evidence is consistent with the government's theory that Bill unwittingly introduced Newkirk to Romano [the defendant] not knowing that Lupert and Newkirk were government agents. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled that in order to sustain the defense of entrapment it must appear that the government or someone acting for the government was the initiator of defendant's illegal acts in the sense of having induced the defendant to do what the defendant would otherwise not have been willing to do. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is unthinkable that the government should prosecute those whom it has urged to commit [the] crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.