United States v. Troutman’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 1428 · 1987
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 30 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1990), United States v. Record (1989)
114 federal appellate · 30 district · 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 543
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Calandra · Costello 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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conspiracy cases may be proven exclusively by circumstantial evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be 'substantial; that is, it must do more than raise a mere suspicion of guilt.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a conspiracy is established, only slight evidence is needed to connect a co-conspirator”
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.