United States v. Ceccolini’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 136 · 1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably United States v. Ceccolini (1978), United States v. Marchand (1977)
22 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Stone v. Powell · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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.
“although there is evidence to support this charge the government has not met its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.