United States v. Helmich’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 547 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably United States v. Doherty (1989), United States v. Hersh (2002)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 3281 · 18 U.S.C. § 3283 · 18 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Iannelli v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · Romano v. United States · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legal as well as the illegal aspects of an agreement are all part of a conspiracy to commit an illegal act for statute of limitations purposes.”
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.