Sansone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1,288 federal appellate · 75 district · 378 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,092 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably McCarthy v. United States (1969), Patterson v. New York (1977)
1,288 federal appellate · 75 district · 378 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSansone v. United States (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7207
Relies on Spies v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Berra v. United States
Cited together with Spies v. United States · Berra v. United States · Holland v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Glasser 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 2,092 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lesser-included offense instruction is only proper where the charged greater offense requires the jury to find a disputed factual element which is not required for conviction of the lesser-included offense.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by [the Internal Revenue Code] or the payment thereof shall[ ]... be guilty of a felony ....”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the elements of Sec. 7201 are willfulness; the existence of a tax deficiency; and an affirmative act constituting an evasion or attempted evasion of the tax.”
17 later decisions 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.