United States v. Bartko’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.3d 327 · 2013
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if one overarching conspiracy is not evident, the district court's failure to give a multiple conspiracies instruction is reversible error only when ... the evidence of multiple conspiracies [was] so strong in relation to that of a single conspiracy that the jury probably would have acquitted on the conspiracy count had it been given a cautionary multiple-conspiracy instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]t is an abuse of discretion for the district court to commit a legal error-such as improperly determining whether there was a Brady violation.” Id. (internal quotations omitted). 4 . Therefore, Wolf's motion for acquittal based on insufficient evidence of materiality also encompassed the separate money laundering count because the money laundering count”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“amounts to reversible error only if the instruction: (1) was correct, (2) was not substantially covered by the charge that the district court gave to the jury, and (3) involved some point so important that the failure to give the instruction seriously impaired the defendant's defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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