United States v. Rapoport’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 802 · 1976
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
17 federal appellate ·
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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 875
Relies on Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Kelley v. United States · Pacelli v. United States · United States v. Mallah · United States v. Kelner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“removes all doubt that one who puts in motion or assists in the illegal enterprise or causes the commission of an indispensable element of the offense by an innocent agent or instrumentality is guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unnecessary that the intermediary who commits the forbidden act have a criminal intent.”
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.