United States v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 656 · 1986
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Boylan (1990), United States v. Locascio (1993)
98 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Stovall v. Denno · Solem v. Helm · United States v. Turkette · Russello 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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Court in Batson envisioned that a motion to strike would be made promptly, probably before the venire was dismissed,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he charges against her were only peripherally related to those alleged against the other [co-defendants, and] [a]s the trial progressed it became increasingly apparent that very little of the mountain of evidence was usable against her”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a subsequent trial for RICO, the government may count, as a predicate offense, a defendant’s prior conviction for an offense falling within the definition of 'racketeering activity.’ ”). 11 . See, e.g., United States v. Mosley, 206 Fed. Appx. 365 , 366 (5th Cir. 2006) (per curiam); United States v. Sandoval, 1995 WL 337738 , at (5th Cir, 1995) (unpublished); United States v. Rocha, 916 F.2d 219 , 241 (5th Cir. 1990). 12 . At the very least, the testimony was relevant to appellants’ consciousness of guilt. Rocha, 916 F.2d at 241 (”
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.