Long v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 829 · 1966
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Staten (1978), Bailey v. United States (1969)
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mallory v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Smith v. Crouse · United States v. Mitchell
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, a person aids and abets another in the commission of a crime if he knowingly associates himself in some way with the criminal venture with the intent to commit the crime and participates in it as something he wishes to bring about, and seeks by some action of his to make it succeed. ^ ^ “So conduct by a defendant of an affirmative character in the furtherance of a common criminal design, scheme or purpose is necessary.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in furtherance of’. 21 . In Long one defendant (Huff) waited in the car while his co-defendants committed an armed robbery, in the course of which they shot and killed their victim. They returned to the car, and “Huff drove the car away from the scene, fully aware of what had taken place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The charge was inappropriate, and apparently inadvertent . . . . In the circumstances this was harmless error; we note that no objection was made on this score at the time.”
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.