Iannelli v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1,589 federal appellate · 101 district · 807 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,147 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc (1985), Brown v. Ohio (1977)
1,589 federal appellate · 101 district · 807 state decisions — followed in 40 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Pinkerton v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · North Carolina v. Pearce · Albernaz 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 3,147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If each requires proof of a fact that the other does not, the Blockburger test is satisfied, notwithstanding a substantial overlap in the proof offered to establish the crimes.”
94 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Conspiracy is an inchoate offense, the essence of which is an agreement to commit an unlawful act.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An agreement by two persons to commit a particular crime cannot be prosecuted as a conspiracy when the crime is of such a nature as to necessarily require the participation of two persons for its commission.”
22 later decisions 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.