Ortega v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 874 · 1965
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably United States v. Anthony J. Demma, United States of America v. Henry Brulay (1975), United States v. Mehciz (1971)
59 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Sherman · Hansford v. United States · Smith 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Entrapment is a word of art having a precise definition in the law. This definition attempts to delineate what entrapment is as well as what it ordinarily is not. It is ‘the act of a government officer or agent ordering a person to commit a crime not contemplated by him, for the purpose of instituting a criminal presentation against him. But the mere fact of an officer in furnishing the accused an opportunity to commit the crime when the criminal intent was already present in the accused’s mind is not ordinarily entrapment, (emphasis added.) Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th ed., p. 627.’ ””
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.