United States v. Bey’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 891 · 1984
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably United States v. Shabani (1994), United States v. Xavier (1993)
47 federal appellate · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Albernaz v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Yates 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brown“Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense defined in this title is punishable by imprisonment or fine or both which may not exceed the maximum punishment prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brown“that he participated in it as in something that he wished to bring about, that he sought by his action to make it succeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.