United States v. Carpentier’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 21 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Casamento (1989), United States v. Tutino (1989)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 203 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United States v. Russell · Hampton v. United States · ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Griffin v. United States · Pesce 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'must necessarily disbelieve the testimony offered on behalf of his co-defendant,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] certain amount of prejudice to a defendant is regarded as acceptable given the judicial economies that result from joinder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Shape · State v. Zakaria“It is difficult to see how Alexandra’s defense that he was ferreting out corrup tion prejudiced Carpentier in the least; it certainly failed to rise to the standard enunciated by the Berkowitz court____ There appears to be no reason why the jury could not have believed Alexandra’s story and yet still have found that Carpentier lacked the requisite intent to commit the crimes with which he was charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.