United States v. Canas’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 73 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Schlei (1997), United States v. Verrecchia (1999)
17 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Braverman v. United States · Ryan v. United States · Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States · Frohwerk 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]uplicity is the joining in a single count of two or more distinct and separate offenses”
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.