United States v. Cioffi’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 492 · 1973
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Ciuzio v. United States (1974), United States v. Mallah (1974)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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. § 472 · 18 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Pereira v. United States · Ball 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t appears settled that indictments worded in the conjunctive, charging violations of statutes worded in the disjunctive, can be supported by proof of either of the conjoined means of violating the act.”
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.