United States v. Mackie’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1121 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2015
17 federal appellate · 4 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 16 U.S.C. § 668 · 16 U.S.C. § 703 (Arctic Tundra Habitat Emergency Conservation Act)
Relies on United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · Simpson v. United States · Busic v. United States · United States v. Batchelder
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The MBTA, 16 U-S.C. Sections 703, 707(b) and the BGEPA, 16 U.S.C. Section 668 (a), prohibit offering to sell or selling eagles or parts of eagles. Both (defendants) offered to sell and sold whole eagles and eagle parts to undercover agents. (Defendants) violated both statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule we apply is straightforward: “where an act violates more than one statute, the Government may elect to prosecute under either unless the congressional history indicates that Congress intended to disallow the use of the more general statute.”
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.