United States v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 1239 · 1995
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Hoffecker (2008), United States v. Urban (2005)
82 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1027 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 873 · 29 U.S.C. § 1023 (§ 103 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1026 (§ 106 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1027 (§ 107 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Schmuck v. United States · Turner 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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever knowingly uses intimidation or physical force, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to ... hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or a judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we consider the totality of the instructions and not a particular sentence or paragraph in isolation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e must affirm the conviction[ ] if a rational trier of fact could have found defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and the verdict is supported by substantial evidence,”
3 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.