United States v. Yeo’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 385 · 1984
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably United States v. Floresca (1994), United States v. Apodaca (1988)
38 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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. § 894
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Stirone v. United States · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Morris v. Gressette · United States v. Smith
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.
“crimes such as perjury or subornation of perjury, false statement, criminal fraud, embezzlement or false pretense, or any other offense, in the nature of crimen falsi the commission of which involves some element of untruthfulness, deceit or falsification bearing on the accused's propensity to testify truthfully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]everal courts have observed that although theft is not, of necessity, a crime of dishonesty or false statement, it may nevertheless be admissible under Rule 609(a)(2) if in fact the crime was committed by fraudulent or deceitful means”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictment against him.”
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.