United States v. Shinderman’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.3d 5 · 2008
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Dowdell (2010), United States v. Rivera-Rodríguez (2010)
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1035 (§ 244 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 822 (§ 302 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must allow him reasonable latitude for credibility assessments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]f ... the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice with respect to the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“examin[ing] the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused so as to determine whether the record supports an entrapment theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.