United States v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 38 · 1981
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Dewees v. United States (1981), United States v. Nersesian (1987)
93 federal appellate · 4 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Berger v. United States · Pereira 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“associate[d] himself with the venture, ... participate[d] in it as in something that he wish[ed] to bring about,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the commission of the underlying offense by someone, a voluntary act or omission, and a specific intent that such act or omission promote the success of the underlying criminal offense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From on or about July 7, 1982, up to and including on or about August 4, 1982, HU-GHEY J. SHANNON, a/k/a HUGH J. SHANNON, and JOANNA McKNIGHT, a/k/a JODY McKNIGHT, the defendants, corruptly did endeavor to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri in that the said HUGHEY J. SHANNON, a/k/a HUGH J. SHANNON, and JOANNA McKNIGHT, a/k/a JODY McKNIGHT, knowing that the Southern Missouri Bank, Mansfield, Missouri, formerly doing business as the Farmers and Merchants Bank, had received a subpoena to provide bank records and documents to the grand jury inquiring in said district into possible violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001, and Title 31, United States Code, Section 1058, 1059 and 1081, destroyed and caused to be destroyed the subpoenaed bank records and documents of the Southern Missouri Bank, Mansfield, Missouri, formerly doing business as the Farmers and Merchants Bank; all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1503 and 2.”
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.