United States v. Spitler’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 1267 · 1986
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Evans v. United States (1992), McCormick v. United States (1991)
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 281
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Iannelli v. United States · Nye & Nissen 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the decision to deny severance, which is within the sound discretion of the district judge, will not be overturned unless the defendant affirmatively demonstrates a clear abuse of discretion through having been deprived a fair trial and having suffered a miscarriage of justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so prejudicial that the differences are irreconcilable, 'and that the jury will unjustifiably infer that this conflict alone demonstrates that both are guilty.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f it appears that a defendant ... is prejudiced by a joinder of defendants in an indictment or for trial together, the [district] court may grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever relief justice requires.”
4 later decisions 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.