United States v. Schembari’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 931 · 1973
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Canino (1991)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · Ungar v. Sarafite · Moore v. Illinois · Avery v. State of Alabama · Bowman Dairy Co. 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a bill of particulars is to enable a defendant to obtain sufficient information on the nature of the charge against him so that he may prepare for trial, minimize the danger of surprise at trial, and enable him to plead his acquittal or conviction in bar of another prosecution for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the trial court erred in denying [the] motion [of the accused] for a more definite statement ... to the extent that he was refused an exact description of those actions which allegedly constituted his offense.” The court said it construed this”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spector v. State“[T]he government cannot disclose what it does not have....”
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.