United States v. Salinas’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 319 · 1981
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably United States v. Vera (1983), United States v. Cauble (1983)
100 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Stirone v. United States · Lombard v. Marcera · United States v. James
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n amendment of the indictment occurs when the charging terms of the indictment are altered, either literally or in effect by the prosecutor or court after the grand jury has last passed upon them. A variance occurs when the charging terms of the indictment are left unaltered, but the evidence offered at trial proves facts materially different from those alleged in the indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allowing the jury to convict if it found that the principal whom Salinas aided and abetted was an officer, director, employee, or agent of the bank when the indictment charged him only with aiding and abetting a specific named individual, Woodul, the trial judge modified an essential element of the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“approval of the board of directors is no longer material to whether there was a misapplication of bank funds.”
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.