United States v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (§ 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Calandra · Iannelli v. United States · City of Chicago v. Morales · Staples 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a prosecutor's legal instruction to the grand jury seriously misstates the applicable law, the indictment is subject to dismissal if the misstatement casts grave doubt that the decision to indict was free from the substantial influence of the erroneous instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“negates the element of wrongful intent of a defendant that is required for conviction.”
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.