United States v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 146 · 1984
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Torres (1990), United States v. Pace (1990)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 16 U.S.C. § 3371 (Big Cat Public Safety Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 3372 · 16 U.S.C. § 3373 · 16 U.S.C. § 668 · 16 U.S.C. § 742J · 16 U.S.C. § 742J · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 43 (Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992)
Relies on Burks v. United States · Marks v. United States · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · United States v. Bell · Ohio v. Gallagher
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the conspiracy charge the government is only required to prove that at least one overt act was taken by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy; it need not prove that the substantive offense was consummated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the fish or wildlife or plants were taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of, or in a manner unlawful under, any underlying law, treaty or regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“result in the likelihood of a grave miscarriage of justice or circumstances that seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
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.