United States v. Swindler’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 167 · 1973
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably United States v. McVeigh (1998), United States v. Fountain (1981)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1792 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Carter v. United States · United States v. Hedges · United States v. Bedwell · United States v. Roche
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Conveying] into such [federal penal or correctional] institution or from place to place therein, any firearm, weapon, explosive, or any lethal or poisonous gas or any other substance or thing designed to kill, injure, or disable any officer, agent, employee, inmate thereof, or [conspiring] so to do____ ( 18 U.S.C. § 1792 (current version at 18 U.S.C. § 1791 ).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that even a short space in which the transportation occurred is enough.”
1 later decision 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.