United States v. Spinelli’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 48 · 2003
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. James (2013), United States v. Lin Guang (2007)
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1959 · 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Salameh · United States v. Locascio · United States v. Diaz · United States v. Carson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]uch of the evidence about [one defendant's] crimes would have been admissible at a separate trial of [the other defendant], since it was relevant to proving the nature and scope of the conspiracy in which both were, to differing degrees, involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are, of course, cases in which the sheer volume and magnitude of the evidence against one defendant so dwarfs the proof presented against his codefendant that a severance is required to prevent unacceptable spillover prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]joint trials are often particularly appropriate in circumstances where the defendants are charged with participating in the same criminal conspiracy....”
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.