United States v. Shearer’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 819 · 1979
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably United States v. Taylor (1995), United States v. Shue (1985)
37 federal appellate · 11 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. § 2113
Relies on Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Freeman v. Zahradnick · American Air Filter Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Chambers v. Texas
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]wo or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment as long as the offenses charged 'are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-3583“the two counts refer to the same type of offenses occurring over a relatively short period of time, and the evidence as to each count overlaps.”
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.