United States v. Silverstein’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 864 · 1984
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Bonds (1993), United States v. Espinosa (1985)
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 1111
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Dutton v. Evans · Krulewitch v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Henry
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prosecutor may not use impeachment as a guise for submitting to the jury substantive evidence that is otherwise unavailable”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled that in federal conspiracy trials the hearsay exception that allows evidence of an out-of-court statement of one conspirator to be admitted against his fellow conspirators applies only if the statement was made in the course of and in furtherance of the conspiracy, and not during a subsequent period when the conspirators were engaged in nothing more than concealment of the criminal enterprise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a conspiracy terminates when its central criminal purposes have been attained”
2 later decisions 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.