United States v. Crew’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 575 · 1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Simpson v. United States (1978), United States v. Dorsey (1978)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Pereira v. United States · Prince v. United States · United States v. Curry · United States v. Charles L. Canty, United States of America v. Charles M. Richardson · United States v. Ramirez
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not encompass the use of nonexplosive weapons,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)here a single act is the proof of two offenses set forth in the same subsection, it is our opinion that Congress did not intend for separate sentences to lie.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a firearm during the commission of a felony, when the”
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.