United States v. Finucan’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 838 · 1983
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably United States v. Moreno Morales (1987), United States v. Silvestri (1986)
43 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Alderman v. United States · Harris v. New York
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an answer may or may not be false depending upon possible interpretations of an ambiguous question, it is for the jury to decide whether the defendant has committed perjury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““When the Government is effectively denied the possibility of direct prosecution on the basis of illegally seized evidence, no significant additional deterrent effect could be realized by suppressing the evidence at a trial of the search victim for a crime committed after the illegal search and with the knowledge that the illegal search occurred.””
2 later decisions 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.