Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
818 federal appellate · 217 district · 266 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,976 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Olano (1993), Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991)
818 federal appellate · 217 district · 266 state decisions — followed in 33 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Kilpatrick (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 3771 · 18 U.S.C. § 6002
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Thomas v. Arn · United States v. Calandra · Costello v. United States · Rose v. Clark
Cited together with United States v. Mechanik · Costello v. United States · United States v. Hasting · United States v. Williams · Brady v. State of Maryland
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 1,976 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'grave doubt' that the decision to indict was free from the substantial influence of [the misconduct]”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]s a general matter, a district court may not dismiss an indictment for errors in grand jury proceedings unless such errors prejudiced the defendants.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“in every pertinent respect, as binding as any statute duly enacted by Congress, and federal courts have no more discretion to disregard [a] Rule's mandate than they do to disregard constitutional or statutory provisions.”
14 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.