United States v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 853 · 1984
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Blevins (1992), United States v. Esch (1987)
55 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Rochin v. People of California · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Pereira v. United States · United States v. Russell · Sorrells 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense that the government's conduct was so outrageous as to require reversal on due process grounds is often raised but is almost never successful.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have held that the government need not have a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing in order to conduct an undercover investigation of a particular person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.