United States v. Marrifield’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 877 · 1975
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2002 · most notably Sanabria v. United States (1978), United States v. Leon (1976)
24 federal appellate ·
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. § 1955
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Hagner v. United States · Cole v. United States · Wingo v. Wedding · Cass 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree of participation intended to be proscribed as criminal by Section 1955 is nowhere therein defined, courts considering this issue have looked for guidance to the legislative history of Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1511....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“refers both to high level bosses and street level employees ... [but] [i]t does not include the player in an illegal game of chance, nor the person who participates in an illegal gambling activity by placing a bet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[these] section[s] appl[y] generally to persons who participate in the ownership, management, or conduct of an illegal gambling business.”
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.