United States v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1004 · 1984
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey (1988), United States v. Tarantino (1988)
50 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he actions of two or more agents of a corporation, conspiring on behalf of the corporation, may lead to conspiracy convictions of the agents ...”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that the disclosure at trial of the Brady material did not prejudice defendants. They had two full days, including one nontrial day, in which to prepare to cross-examine Fallon with regard to his grand jury testimony, which was short, uncomplicated, and fairly predictable. Defendants also had nine days between disclosure and the end of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a world of difference between invoking the fiction of corporate personality to subject a corporation to civil liability for acts of its agents and invoking it to shield a corporation or its agents from criminal liability where its agents acted on its behalf.”
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.