United States v. Ruppel’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 261 · 1982
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Parodi (1983), United States v. Payne (1991)
80 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 873 · 18 U.S.C. § 875 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Giglio v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Perry · Michel 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retire[ ] to deliberate less than fully aware of the presumption of innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(1) a bona fide need for the testimony; (2) the substance of the testimony; (3) its exculpatory nature and effect; and (4) that the co-defendant will in fact testify if the cases are severed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness.”
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.