United States v. James’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 999 · 1976
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Brewer v. Williams (1977), Griffin v. United States (1991)
151 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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. § 1073 · 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3109 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 5005
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, 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.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise permitted by statute or by these rules, the prosecution shall be had in a district in which the offense was committed. The court shall fix the place of trial within the district with due regard to the convenience of the defendant and the witnesses and the prompt administration of justice. 178”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The venue provision of the Sixth Amendment provides only for trial in the district where the crime shall have been committed. There is no reference to a division within a judicial district.”
3 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.