United States v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 269 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Church Of Scientology Of California v. United States Department Of Justice (1980), United States v. University Hospital, State University of New York (1984)
27 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · Mark Trail Camp Grounds, Inc. v. Field Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. Georgia-Pacific Co. · International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. v. General Telephone & Electronics Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'where an act violates more than one statute, the Government may elect to prosecute under either [statute] unless the congressional history indicates that Congress intended to disallow the use of the more general statute.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the words and purpose of a statute plainly apply to a particular situation, however, the fact that the specific application of the stature never occurred to Congress does not bar us from holding that the situation falls within the statute's coverage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“willfully injury[ ] or commit[ ] any depredation against any property of the United States.”
2 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.