United States v. Cecil’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1294 · 1979
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Bohonus (1980), United States v. Miller (1985)
78 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Hamling v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Russell v. United States · Wong Tai 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beginning on or before July, 1975, and continuing thereafter until on or after October, 1975.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it failed to allege any other facts or circumstances pertaining to the conspiracy, any overt acts done in furtherance thereof, or any specific time frame for their commission. Id. at 1296-97. 24 The indictment in the instant case contains considerably more factual detail than did the barren document at issue in Cecil. The indictment charges that a continuing conspiracy existed for a period of about five years,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enable him to plead jeopardy against a later prosecution,”
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.