United States v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 958 · 1977
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Kenny (1981), United States v. Fleishman (1982)
196 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · United States v. Maze
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]his requirement is not an inflexible one.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The instructions given need not be in the precise language requested by the defendant. The refusal to give a requested instruction is not error if the charge as a whole adequately covers the theory of the defense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Vjiewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the government as prevailing party, is the court satisfied that the jurors reasonably could decide that they would not hesitate to act in their own serious affairs upon factual assumptions as probable as the conclusions that the defendant is guilty as charged?”
4 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.