United States v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 509 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Branch (2008), United States v. Ellis (1997)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Trammel v. United States · Patton v. United States · Tanner v. United States · Tome v. United States · Insurance Co. of North America v. United States Department of Labor
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“showing of clear prejudice or abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Joinder of Offenses. Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment or information in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan. (b) Joinder of Defendants. Two or more defendants may be charged in the same indictment or information if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such defendants may be charged in one or more counts together or separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in each count.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“remaining jurors were present, ready to resume deliberations, and the alternate jurors had been excused”
1 later decision 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.