United States v. Mayes’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 637 · 1975
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Sanabria v. United States (1978), United States v. Haldeman (1976)
148 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 20 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. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 2313 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · Opper v. United States · Krulewitch 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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a conspiracy contemplates a continuity of purpose and a continued performance of acts, it is presumed to exist until there has been an affirmative showing that it has terminated; and its members continue to be conspirators until there has been an affirmative showing that they have withdrawn.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ljess than proof beyond a reasonable doubt; indeed it is less than a preponderance. South-East Coal, supra, 434 F.2d at 779 . Moreover the prima facie case need not be established before the proffered hearsay may be admitted; the judge may admit it conditionally. It is sufficient if at the close of the government’s proofs, a prima facie case of the conspiracy and the defendant’s connection with it has been established by “independent or disassociated evidence.” South-East Coal, supra, at 788.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If two or more persons conspire . . to commit any offense against the United States . . . and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. ******”
2 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.