United States v. Comi’s Empirical Analysis
336 F.2d 856 · 1964
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably United States of America v. Theresa Marie Squillacote (2000), United States v. Haynes (1968)
18 federal appellate · 5 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Michelson v. United States · United States v. Howell · Daniel 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the initiator of the criminal activity is not a government agent the defense of entrapment does not apply.”
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.