United States v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 1345 · 1977
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County (1984), United States v. Nersesian (1987)
160 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 3237 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · North Carolina v. Pearce · Simmons v. United States · McMann v. Richardson
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'find that he was a member of the conspiracy charged in the indictment and not some other conspiracy.' " Tramunti, supra, 513 F.2d at 1107; See Taylor, supra, 562 F.2d at 1351 ("The charge here correctly told the jurors that they had to acquit unless they found the existence of the conspiracy charged in the indictment and found that each defendant they convicted was a member of that conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[C]ourts often look to such factors as knowledge and dependency as evidence of an agreement. These factors, in turn, may be inferred from an assessment of the nature of the criminal enterprise and the defendant’s role in it . . . .” United States v. Taylor, 562 F.2d 1345 , 1352 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 432 U.S. 909 , 97 S.Ct. 2958 , 53 L.Ed.2d 1083 ; 434 U.S. 853 , 98 S.Ct. 170 , 54 L.Ed.2d 124 (1977). 19”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(U)nless the purported representation by counsel was such as to make the trial a farce and a mockery of justice, mere allegations of incompetency or inefficiency of counsel will not ordinarily suffice . . . . A lack of effective assistance of counsel must be of such a kind as to shock the conscience of the Court and make the proceedings a farce and mockery of justice. . . .”
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.