United States v. Archer’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 670 · 1973
Citation profile
221 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 321 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hampton v. United States (1976), United States v. Isaacs (1974)
221 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. § 1952 · 28 U.S.C. § 1359
Relies on Katz v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Olmstead 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 321 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be unthinkable, for example, to permit government agents to instigate robberies and beatings merely to gather evidence to convict other members of a gang of hoodlums”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“federal officers themselves supplied the interstate element and acted to ensure that an interstate element would be present.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the federal element in a prosecution under the Travel Act is furnished solely by undercover agents, a stricter standard is applicable than when the interstate or foreign activities are those of the defendants themselves____”
5 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.