United States v. Bruun’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 397 · 1987
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988)
119 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1005 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 2315 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Russell · Patterson v. New York · Lutwak 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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an agreement among the conspirators to commit an offense, attended by an act of one or more of them to effect the object of the conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to convict a defendant of conspiracy, the Government must prove that (1) there was an agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, (2) the defendant was a party to the agreement, and (3) an overt act was committed in furtherance of the agreement by one of the co-conspirators.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some day be presented with a situation in which the conduct of law enforcement agents is so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.