United States v. Scotti’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 1237 · 1995
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Salameh (1998), United States v. Autuori (2000)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 18 U.S.C. § 891 · 18 U.S.C. § 892 · 18 U.S.C. § 894
Relies on Burks v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Nye & Nissen 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the jury has before it sufficient information to make a discriminating appraisal of the witness's possible motives for testifying falsely in favor of the government, we will uphold the trial court's exercise of its discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“logically impossible for a defendant to intend and agree to join a conspiracy if [s]he does not know that it exists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress's desire to craft a flexible set of tools for prosecutors to wield with 'vigor and imagination' ...”
2 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.