United States v. Maselli’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 1197 · 1976
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Guster (1981), United States v. Rubio-Villareal (1992)
28 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Cupp v. Naughten · Stirone v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Russell v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each witness is presumed to speak the truth; however, if you find the presumption of truthfulness to be outweighed as to any witness, you will give the testimony of that witness such credibility, if any, as you may think it merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ne who causes another to commit an unlawful act is as guilty of the substantive offense as the one who actually commits the act.”
1 later decision 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.