United States v. Fabrizio’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Miller (1985), United States v. Nardello (1969)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1084 · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 1953 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Russell v. United States · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Bain Jr · United States v. Borden Co.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) bookmaking; or (b) wagering pools with respect to a sporting event; or (c) in a numbers, policy, bolita, or similar game.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that the lottery statutes apply to state operated as well as illegal lotteries and that § 1953 was introduced to strengthen those statutes by closing the loopholes placed in them by the narrow interpretation of included materials by this Court in France v. United States, 164 U.S. 676 , 17 S.Ct. 219 , 41 L.Ed. 595 and Francis v. United States, 188 U.S. 375, 23 S.Ct. 334 , 47 L.Ed. 508 . It would be anomalous to hold that where Congress meant to bar the lottery tickets themselves from interstate commerce it would allow the free circulation of other paraphernalia of the lottery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e long ago rejected the notion that 'it lies within the province of a court to change the charging part of an indictment to suit its own notions of what it ought to have been, or what the grand jury would probably have made it if their attention had been called to suggested changes. . .' "); United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 , 90-91, 64 S.Ct. 882, 888-889, 88 L.Ed. 1148 (1944) (Stone, C.J., dissenting) (under Bain an indictment is unconstitutionally amended "when it is so altered as to charge a different offense from that found by the grand jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.