United States v. Capone’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 582 · 1982
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), State v. Ubaldi (1983)
93 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1866 · 28 U.S.C. § 1867
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Lovasco · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is as much [the prosecutor's] duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sanction is needed to deter future prosecutorial misconduct”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We examine: (1) whether the prosecutor's conduct was isolated and/or deliberate; (2) whether the trial court gave a strong and explicit cautionary instruction; and (3) whether it is likely that any prejudice surviving the judge's instruction could have affected the outcome of the case.”
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.