United States v. Twitty’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.3d 228 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States of America John Alexis Mojica-Baez United States of America Josue Reyes-Hernandez United States of America Rodolfo Landa-Rivera United States (2000), United States v. Wihbey (1996)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 New Hampshire District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Grunewald v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Sobin v. United States · United States v. Wright · United States v. Drougas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]o long as the statutory violation remains the same, the jury can convict even if the facts are somewhat different than [those] charged -- so long as the difference does not cause unfair prejudice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e read Grünewald to impose a special burden to show that an express agreement to conceal was, or at least became, part of the central conspiratorial agreement and that the later acts relied upon were in furtherance of this agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven a single conspiracy is likely to involve subsidiary agreements relating to different individuals and transactions. And more often than not, none of the agreements is explicit; agreement is inferred from conduct.”
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.