United States v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 320 · 1987
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Blakeney (1991), United States v. Frost (1997)
96 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1623
Relies on Raphan v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · In re Martin-Trigona · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a severance motion will be deemed waived if it is not renewed at the end of the evidence.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Two or more defendants may be charged in the same indictment or information if they are alleged to have participated in ... the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] false declaration satisfies the materiality requirement if a truthful statement might have assisted or influenced the grand jury in its investigations.”
3 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.