United States v. Scelzo’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 2 · 1987
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), United States v. Pedro M. Gonzalez-Sanchez, United States of America v. Carlos Latorre, United States of America v. Manuel Parrilla-Marquez (1987)
41 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 1644 (§ 134 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Houltin v. United States · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Porter v. States · Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus · Michigan v. Clifford
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a first step, the judge determines whether the evidence has some “special” probative value that would show intent, preparation, knowledge, or absence of mistake. As a second step, the judge balances the evidence’s probative value against the prejudice to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e have thus held that evidence of similar past crimes or wrongful acts may be especially appropriate in conspiracy prosecutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for such evidence to be properly admitted, it must have a similarity sufficient to be probative.”
1 later decision 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.