United States v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 174 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Griffin v. United States (1991), United States v. Tresvant (1982)
37 federal appellate · 1 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. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 26 U.S.C. § 6531 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Yates v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Delli Paoli v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to avoid the five year statute of limitations for conspiracies, the prosecution must prove an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy committed within the limitations period. At trial, Matzkin's attorney did not request an instruction on Count 1 that the government was required to prove at least one overt act within the statute of limitations, and the trial court did not give such an instruction. The court did instruct that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n a multiple-object conspiracy where the object crimes bring into play different statutes of limitations, the proper course may be to apply the rule of lenity in construing the statutes and apply the shorter limitations period to the entire conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no way of knowing whether [the defendant] was convicted for an offense barred by limitations”
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.