United States v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 462 · 1979
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Tresvant (1982), United States v. Buckley (1982)
67 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1158
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Russell v. United States · United States v. Mazurie · Keeble v. United States · Hartman 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant acted with “gross negligence,” defined as “wanton or reckless disregard for human life;” and (2) that the defendant had actual knowledge that his conduct was a threat to the lives of others, ... or had knowledge of such circumstances as could reasonably be said to have made foreseeable to him the peril to which his acts might subject others.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ailing to enforce this requirement would allow a court to `guess as to what was in the minds of the grand jury at the time they returned the indictment.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds: Voluntary — Upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. Involuntary — In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death. 1”
5 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.