United States v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 823 · 1982
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably United States v. Ortiz (1986), United States v. McLernon (1984)
143 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 202 · 18 U.S.C. § 203 · 18 U.S.C. § 205 · 18 U.S.C. § 207 · 18 U.S.C. § 210 · 18 U.S.C. § 214
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · United States v. Nixon · United States v. O'Brien
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“use of dishonest and deceitful informants”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in which key events occur in one district, but the prosecution, preferring trial elsewhere, lures a defendant to a distant district for some minor event simply to establish venue,” but finding that standard inapplicable in that case). Indeed, in a more recent case, the Second Circuit noted that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(T)he defense of entrapment is not established simply because government agents `afford opportunities or facilities for the commission of the offense', Sorrells v. United States, supra , 287 U.S. [435] at 441, 53 S.Ct. [210] at 212 [ 77 L.Ed. 413 ] or engage in `deceit', United States v. Russell , 411 U.S. 423 , 435-36 , 93 S.Ct. 1637 , 1644-45 , 36 L.Ed.2d 366 (1973). The legal defense of entrapment is not established whenever a defendant is caught by a ruse.”
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.