United States v. Abraham’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 1234 · 1976
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably United States v. Briscoe (1990), United States v. DeLuna (1985)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · Ham v. South Carolina
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the parties to the agreement must know of each other's existence, they need not know each other's identity nor need there be direct contact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'will be unable to obtain a fair trial without severance, not merely that a separate trial will offer a better chance of acquittal.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in nearly every conspiracy case the claim is made that a variance exists because multiple conspiracies were shown,”
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.