Goldsmith v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 624 · 1971
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Mitchell v. King (1976), United States v. Jackson (1973)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Blockburger v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who shall aid or abet in the commission of any felony, or who shall counsel, encourage, hire, command, or otherwise procure such felony to be committed, shall be deemed an accessory before the fact, and may be indicted, informed against, tried and convicted in the same manner as if he were a principal, and either before or after the principal offender is convicted or indicted or informed against; and upon such conviction he shall suffer the same punishment and penalties as are prescribed by law for the punishment of the principal.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edge v. State · Simmons v. State“`associated himself with and participated in the accomplishment and success of the criminal venture.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The epitome of an accessory charge is to aid, counsel, or assist another in the commission of a criminal act; it does not depend upon an agreement or conspiracy to perform that act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United v. Pursley
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.