United States v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
366 F.2d 377 · 1966
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably United States v. Campanale (1975), United States v. Fernandez (2004)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Ford v. United States · United States v. Perlstein · Butler 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Title 18 U.S.C. § 371 does not require ‘mission accomplished’, only ‘mission attempted’. An overt act by the conspirators in an effort to accomplish the mission satisfies the requirement of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Words descriptive of what is legally essential to the charge in the indictment cannot be stricken as surplusage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged,”
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.