United States v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 843 · 1985
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Nersesian (1987), United States v. Thai (1994)
81 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. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1963 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Franks v. Delaware · Burks v. United States · United States v. Calandra
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there remains a residue of independent and lawful information sufficient to support probable cause.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]missions from an affidavit that are claimed to be material are governed by the same rules.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Having obtained from the court precisely what they affirmatively sought, it ill behooves defendants now to complain that their waiver of indictment to the offense lacked the formality stated in Fed.R.Crim.P. 7.”
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.