United States v. Kendall’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 126 · 1981
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988)
91 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 · Kotteakos v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Opper v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the possibility of multiple conspiracies exists, the trial judge must so instruct the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the indictment sets forth the elements of the offense charged and sufficiently apprises the defendant of the charges to enable him to prepare for trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the jury [could] follow the court's limiting instructions so as not to attribute evidence to a defendant against whom it is inadmissible.”
2 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.