United States v. Becton’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 1294 · 1980
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Richardson v. United States (1984), United States v. Rey (1981)
41 federal appellate · 3 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Burks v. United States · Abney v. United States · United States v. Josef Perez · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore lack jurisdiction to consider this appeal which, though in form asserting former jeopardy, in fact raises only the denial of the motion to acquit.” United States v. Becton, 632 F.2d 1294, 1297 (5th Cir. 1980). We hold that the denial of the defendants’ motion for judgment of acquittal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Seravalli“Although in form the question presented here is that of denial of a motion asserting double jeopardy, in reality and substance the appellants seek review of their motions to acquit made at the first trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Rey“We are not bound by dicta, even of our own court . . . . Dicta of the Supreme Court are, of course, another matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwab v. Crosby
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.