United States v. Snider’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 985 · 1983
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably United States v. Tarantino (1988), United States v. DeLuna (1985)
63 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Ryan v. United States · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must somehow advance the objectives of the conspiracy, not merely inform the listener [or reader] of the declarant's activities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot say, with fair assurance, after pondering all that happened without stripping the erroneous action from the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statement by a co-conspirator of a party during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy”
2 later decisions 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.