United States v. Swets’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 989 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1993
15 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o the extent that our present opinion is inconsistent with Ryles and Heath, the latter are hereby overruled. We now hold that where the defense of entrapment is injected into a- case, the Government is not required to show that prior to the time the Government’s agent met the defendant the Government had “reasonable grounds” to believe that the defendant was engaged in “unlawful activities.” [Footnote omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Booze“(T)he fact that a Government agent affords an opportunity for the commission of an offense and otherwise engages in artifice and stratagem does not constitute entrapment.”
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.