United States v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.3d 3 · 2009
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Green (2010), United States v. Tavares (2013)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 1957 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 981 (§ 1366 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206 · 31 U.S.C. § 5313
Relies on United States v. Olano · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Zannino · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Fiswick 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] conspiracy endures as long as the co-conspirators endeavor to attain the 'central criminal purposes' of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Determining the contours of the conspiracy ordinarily is a factual matter entrusted largely to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] financial transaction ... involving] the proceeds of a specified unlawful activity ... knowing the transaction is designed in whole or in part—to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds ...”
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.