United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 1071 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Street (1995), United States v. Kleinebreil (1992)
22 federal appellate · 1 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114
Relies on United States v. Feola · Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Ruiz v. District of Columbia Court of General Sessions · United States v. Heliczer
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'what an officer ought to do because of being an officer,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Engaged in ... performance of official duties” is simply acting within the scope of what the agent is employed to do. The test is whether the agent is acting within that compass or is engaging in a personal frolic of his own. 6”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n the performance of his official duty to investigate whether a federal fugitive was in an automobile, the federal officer came across an individual reported to him to have been a state fugitive earlier that day travelling in the company of the federal offender. The federal officer was assaulted by a third person while he sought to detain the state fugitive to see if he was still sought by state authorities. We think that [a] jury ... could properly find that the officer’s action, reasonably related in time and place to the performance of his federal function, was while the officer was engaged in “the performance of his official duties[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNally v. DeWitt
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.