United States v. Ahern’s Empirical Analysis
612 F.2d 507 · 1980
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2009
18 federal appellate ·
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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Frey v. United States · Hawkins v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Wyatt 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recantation of testimony given under oath at trial is not looked upon with favor. Indeed, such is generally looked upon with suspicion.”
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.