Settles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Irick v. United States (1989), Catlett v. United States (1988)
50 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · United States v. Lane · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Drew 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Presence is thus equated to aiding and abetting when it is shown that it designedly encourages the perpetrator, facilitates the unlawful deedas when the accused acts as a lookoutor where it stimulates others to render assistance to the criminal act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wesley v. United States · In Re THB“is more liberal than Rule 8(b) joinder: under 8(a), offenses may be joined if they are either similar in character or based on the same act or transaction, whereas under Rule 8(b), offenses may be joined only if they are based on the same act or transaction or series of acts or transactions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`where one offense logically leads to another.'”
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.