United States v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 6 · 1976
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Pennell (1984), United States v. Terry (1983)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 39 U.S.C. § 406
Relies on Katz v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Parker v. Levy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence sufficient to link another defendant to it need not be overwhelming.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The admissions made by [the criminal defendant] in his taped conversation ... were made during the course of the alleged conspiracy, rather than after its consummation, and may be sufficient to establish [his] guilt even without corroboration.”
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.