United States v. S. Lawrence Kahn, Arthur B. Sachs and M. Prial Curran’s Empirical Analysis
381 F.2d 824 · 1967
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Isaacs (1974), United States v. Addonizio (1971)
184 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · Opper v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Hagner 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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]enerally, where the indictment charges a conspiracy, or a crime having a principal and aider-abettors, the rule is that persons jointly indicted should be tried together.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * there is no absolute requirement for a severance when de fendants suggest that the testimony of a codefendant is not available to them unless they are tried separately. The unsupported possibility that such testimony might be forthcoming does not make the denial of a motion for severance erroneous. * * * ” 381 F.2d at 841 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““The test for the sufficiency of an indictment is ‘whether it contains the elements of the offense intended to be charged, “and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet, and, in case any other proceedings are taken against him for a similar offense, whether the record shows with accuracy to what extent he may plead a formal acquittal or conviction.” ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.