United States v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 128 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Wajda (1987), United States v. Plenty Arrows (1991)
31 federal appellate · 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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Raphan v. United States · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo · Cohen 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“{W]e must determine whether the facts so viewed sufficiently proved the elements of aiding and abetting, which are: (1) that the defendant associated with the ifiegal activity; (2) that the defendant participated hilt as something he or she wished to bring about; and (3) that the defendant sought by his or her actions to make the activity succeed.”
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.