United States v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.3d 29 · 2009
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2023
7 federal appellate · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 1513 · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 47 U.S.C. § 223
Relies on United States v. Scott · United States v. Bailey · Serfass v. United States · Smith v. Massachusetts · United States v. Eckhardt
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review pure questions of statutory interpretation de novo .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is mechanical and perhaps arbitrary, but it is the line that the Supreme Court has drawn and the circuits have followed.”
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.