United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 628 · 1994
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Ngure v. Ashcroft (2004), United States v. Jackson-Randolph (2002)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 31 U.S.C. § 5313 · 31 U.S.C. § 5322 · 31 U.S.C. § 5324 (§ 1354 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986)
Relies on Bourjaily v. United States · Ratzlaf et Ux United States · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Yamamoto v. United States · Wade v. Shook
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statement that simply informs a listener of the declarant's criminal activities is not made in furtherance of the conspiracy; instead, the statement must somehow advance the objective of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if no reasonable jury could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that [the defendants were] guilty of the charged offense[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that no substantial rights of the defendant were affected, and that the error had no, or only slight, influence on the verdict[,]”
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.