United States v. French’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 1189 · 1982
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Lard (1984), United States v. Salazar (1983)
41 federal appellate · 2 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 · Hamling v. United States · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant argue[s] that because the undercover agent who sold him the food stamps was authorized to dispense them, the defendant’s acquisition and possession of the food stamps was likewise authorized.... We find [this] argument totally without merit .... In 7 U.S.C. § 2024 (a), Congress authorized the issuance or presentment of food stamps for enforcement purposes. In 7 U.S.C. § 2024 (b), Congress made the unauthorized acquisition of food stamps a crime. Obviously, Congress did not intend to exempt from criminal penalties anyone who acquired food stamps from an undercover agent. The fact that a seller is authorized to sell does not mean that the buyer must necessarily be cloaked with authority to buy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence must clearly have indicated that a government agent originated the criminal design; that the agent implanted in the mind of an innocent person the disposition to commit the offense, and that the defendant then committed the criminal act at the urging of the government agent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A)rtifice and stratagem may be employed to catch those engaged in criminal enterprises.”
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.