United States v. De Peri’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 963 · 1985
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp. (1993), United States v. Boylan (1990)
86 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'abbreviated, composed with unfinished sentences and punctuated with ambiguous references to events that [were] clear only to the [defendant] and [the witness].'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the rare case in which adverse pretrial publicity will create a presumption of prejudice that overrides the jurors' assurances that they can be impartial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flamer v. Delaware · William H. Flamer v. State of Delaware Darl Chaffinch Raymond Callaway Harold K. Brode William H. Porter Gary A. Myers Loren C. Meyers Dana Reed James E. Liguori Charles M. Oberly, III Walter Redman Stanley W. Taylor, Acting Warden Warden Robert Snyder William Henry Flamer, Billie Bailey v. Robert Snyder, Warden, Delaware Correctional Center“If it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.