United States v. Bostic’s Empirical Analysis
480 F.2d 965 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States of America v. Anthony Gibbs Richard Hough Donneto Berry Chad Gibbs Robert Curtis Lamont Needum Antwan Woods (1999), United States v. Mayes (1975)
25 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Peoni · United States v. Falcone · Pinkerton 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) An object to be accomplished. (2) A plan or scheme embodying means to accomplish that object. (3) An agreement or understanding between two or more of the defendants whereby they become definitely committed to cooperate for the accomplishment of the object by the means embodied in the agreement, or by any effectual means.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“many prosecutors seek to sweep within the drag-net of conspiracy all those who have been associated in any degree whatever with the main offenders,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(t)o allege against a number of persons generally that they have conspired ... does not enable the prosecution to prove several conspiracies each affecting ... different persons or groups of persons ... unless ... the wrong purposes ... form parts of the same combination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.