United States v. Leon’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 534 · 1982
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1983), United States v. Branch (1996)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Stirone v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Lombard v. Marcera
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this Circuit, before the judge must instruct the jury on entrapment, a defendant must show (1) lack of predisposition to commit the crime and (2) some governmental involvement and inducement more than just pro viding the opportunity or facilities to commit the crime.” (emphasis supplied) (emphasis in original).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if the government's case was actual knowledge, the defendant's testimony raised the issue of deliberate ignorance. Needless to say, the court is required to 'instruct the jury on all aspects of a case in order for them to reach a fair and proper verdict.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brooks does not control here. The judge was merely trying to keep the trial from stalling in mid-afternoon.”); Smith, 690 N.Y.S.2d at 7 (”
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.