United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 285 · 1974
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably United States v. Conforte (1980), United States v. Duncan (1988)
39 federal appellate · 1 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 Bursten v. United States · Perez 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently precise to instruct the jury in the defendant's theory of defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who— (1) Declaration under penalties of perjury.— Willfully makes and subscribes any return, statement, or other document, which contains or is verified by a written declaration that it is made under the penalties of perjury, and which he does not believe to be true and correct as to every material matter; shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was a foundation in the evidence for them”
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.