United States v. Sidney Levine and Mpd Film Productions, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 658 · 1977
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Lane (1986), United States v. Phillips (1981)
110 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Kotteakos v. United States · Roth v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or a wheel conspiracy to exist, those people who form the wheel's spokes must have been aware and must do something in furtherance of some single, illegal enterprise. If not, there is no rim to enclose the spokes.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are alleged to have participated ... in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where, however, the defendant can show that the charge of a joinder of defendants in conspiratorial action is based on a legal interpretation that is improper, the court cannot base its 8(b) ruling on the written words alone but must determine if, under correct legal theory, joint action was actually involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.