United States v. Szycher’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 443 · 1978
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Ortiz (1986), United States v. Singleton (1998)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Rochin v. People of California · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employ appropriate artifice and deception to ferret out illegal activities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the more immediate the impact of the government's conduct upon a particular defendant, the more vigorously would be applied Russell's test for constitutional impropriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The question whether circumstances are demonstrated which would bar prosecution under due process principles is for the court.”
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.