United States v. Canel’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 894 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 3241 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 133 · 48 U.S.C. § 1599 · 48 U.S.C. § 1612
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Massiah v. United States · Palmore v. United States · Swain v. Pressley · Perez 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction of offenses under the laws of the United States, not locally inapplicable, committed within the territorial jurisdiction of such courts, and jurisdiction, concurrently with the district courts of the United States, of offenses against the laws of the United States committed upon the high seas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ere we to hold that Title 18 could not be enforced in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the entire title would be for all intents and purposes a dead letter in the territory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress obviously could, as it has in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, provide for life-tenured judges [in the Virgin Islands] for federal as distinct from local matters.”
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.