United States v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 1 · 1978
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Boylan (1990), United States v. Ortiz (1992)
79 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
Relies on Schaffer v. United States · Gorin v. United States · United States v. Honneus · United States v. Edwards · King 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Joinder of Defendants. Two or more defendants may be charged in the same indictment or information if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] conspiracy count can be a sufficient connecting link between ... multiple offenses that tips the balance in favor of joinder”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.