United States v. Forcellati’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 25 · 1979
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Howard (1993), United States v. Baker (1982)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 3401 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Burks v. United States · Wood v. Strickland · United States v. Scott · Bates v. State Bar · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(D) Scope of Appeal. The defendant is not entitled to a trial de novo by a district judge. The scope of the appeal is the same as in an appeal to the court of appeals from a judgment entered by a district judge."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bf · Brady v. J.F.“While there is ... no express provision for ... the defendant to appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming a magistrate's conviction, such appeals have been allowed apparently as a matter of course.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“never genuinely ceases to be the property of the issuer.”
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.