United States v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 13 · 1984
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Rivera-Santiago (1989), United States v. Serrano (1989)
31 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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. § 1542 · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United States v. Johnson · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defenses and objections based on defects in the indictment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets ... its commission, is punishable as a principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“instructed the grand jury to disregard the testimony that was unrelated to the charges before it”
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.