United States v. Staten’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 878 · 1978
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 11 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Sampol (1980), United States v. North (1990)
143 federal appellate · 11 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Holland v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Smith v. Crouse · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appreciable ability to guide the destiny”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the specific intent to facilitate the commission of a crime by another; (2) guilty knowledge on the part of the accused; (3) that an offense was being committed by someone; and (4) that the accused assisted or participated in the commission of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]riminal accountability does not depend inexorably upon personal performance of the acts comprising an offense. He who assists the perpetrator of crime in its commission is as much answerable as if he had engaged in all of its essential aspects himself.”
2 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.