United States v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 524 · 1977
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably United States v. Dennis (1980), United States v. Diecidue (1979)
85 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.
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Wingo v. Wedding · Ristaino v. Ross
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the convictions to stand, the government must produce enough evidence to show that each defendant knew or had reason to know the scope of the (criminal enterprise), and had reason to believe that their own benefits derived from the operation were dependent upon the success of the entire venture.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The government does not have to prove that all of the defendants met together at the same time and ratified the illegal scheme. This just is not the nature of a conspiracy, especially a large narcotics smuggling and distribution organization as we have here. See Blumenthal v. United States, 332 U.S. 539 , 68 S.Ct. 248 , 92 L.Ed. 154 (1947).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knew, or had reason to know, that other retailers were involved ... in a broad project”
3 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.