United States v. Gomberg’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 843 · 1983
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably United States v. Young (1984), United States v. Xavier (1993)
49 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Missouri v. Hunter · Zant v. Stephens
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Duplicity is the joining of two or more distinct offenses in a single count, so that a general verdict does not reveal exactly which crimes the jury found the defendant had committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Block-burger test always deems a lesser included offense the same as the greater because by definition the greater offense includes all the elements of the lesser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“agreed to participate in an unlawful scheme with knowledge of its essential nature.”
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.