United States v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 965 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Sanchez (1990), United States v. Robles-Pantoja (1989)
17 federal appellate · 4 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. § 2
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Colorado v. Connelly · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Cruz v. Hauck
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“including Battered Women's Syndrome, dependent personality disorder, depression, and alcohol abuse,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one who has been indicted as a principal may, on proper instructions, be convicted on evidence showing only that he aided and abetted the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Collins
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.