United States v. Borelli’s Empirical Analysis
336 F.2d 376 · 1964
Citation profile
383 federal appellate · 13 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 478 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1978), Anderson v. United States (1974)
383 federal appellate · 13 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Costello v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States
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 478 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t is ... essential to determine what kind of agreement or understanding existed as to each defendant.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere cessation of activity is not enough ...; there must also be affirmative action, either the making of a clean breast to the authorities ... or communication of the abandonment in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co-conspirators.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'either [by] making ... a clean breast to the authorities ... or communicati[ng] ... the abandonment in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co conspirators.'”
8 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.