United States v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 678 · 1981
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably United States v. Layne (1999), United States v. Shackleford (1984)
56 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bell v. United States · Gore 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unswerving conclusion that had the [testimony] never occurred the result would have been the same, and therefore any error was harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever receives, conceals, stores, barters, sells, or disposes of any goods, wares, or merchandise, securities, or money of the value of $5,000 or more, or pledges or accepts as security for a loan any goods, wares, or merchandise, or securities, of the value of $500 or more, moving as, or which are a part of, or which constitute interstate or foreign commerce, knowing the same to have been stolen, unlawfully converted, or taken ... it it ie it it it Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
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.