United States v. Deon’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 354 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Richmond Engineering, Inc. (1983), United States v. Roberts (1999)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Burks v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · United States v. Lincoln · United States v. Knife
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court may determine as a matter of law the existence of federal jurisdiction over the geographic area, but the locus of the offense within that area is an issue for the trier of fact’’); United States v. Deon, 656 F.2d 354, 357 (8th Cir.1981) (holding that where "the jury was not told that, as a matter of law, an offense had occurred, only that the site of the alleged offense ... was in Indian country [,] [tjhis instruction, reduced to its essentials, finds as a matter of law only that [the property in question] is in Indian country [and] ... did not overstep the rightful province of the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bryant v. Taylor“the Court has found as a matter of law that Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the site of the alleged offense, is in Indian Country. You are therefore instructed that this Court's jurisdiction has been established.”
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.