United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 921 · 1976
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Ben Zvi (2001), United States v. McNair (2010)
45 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Pinkerton v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · Yates v. United States · Grunewald 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he crucial question in determining whether the statute of limitations has run is the scope of the conspiratorial agreement, for it is that which determines both the duration of the conspiracy, and whether the act relied on as an overt act may properly be regarded as in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or purposes of the statute of limitations the overt acts alleged in the indictment and proved at trial mark the durations of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to convict the government must have alleged and proved an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy occurring on or after September 5, 1969, and thus within the five years prior to the return date of the indictment.”
2 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.