United States v. DeVore’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.2d 1069 · 1970
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 349 - People v. Murphy (1972), United States v. Blevins (1992)
78 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Katz v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Lopez 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“excessive behavior on the part of the government that could be said to be so inducive to a reasonably firm person as likely to displace mens rea.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A showing of solicitation alone, however, will not suffice ... since solicitation by itself is not the kind of conduct that would persuade an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant must show prima facie overreaching inducive conduct on the part of the government.”
5 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.