United States v. Pack’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 261 · 1985
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Fox (1990), United States v. Morehead (1992)
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Goldstein v. United States · Idaho ex rel. Evans v. Oregon
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a criminal defendant is entitled to an instruction regarding his theory of the case, a trial judge is given substantial latitude and discretion in tailoring and formulating the instructions so long as they are correct statements of law and fairly and adequately cover the issues presented.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] common purpose or agreement to accomplish an unlawful objective may be inferred from a development and collocation of circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is no requirement that the trial judge must follow the exact language from the jury instructions offered by the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.