United States v. Burkett’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1306 · 1987
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Shoffner (1995), United States v. Marin-Cifuentes (1989)
41 federal appellate · 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. § 1361 · 18 U.S.C. § 2115 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Rideout v. United States · Bullock v. United States · United States v. Feola · Johnson v. Righetti · Harris v. McRae
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When admitted for the purpose of showing intent, the prior acts need not be duplicates, but must be sufficiently similar to support an inference of criminal intent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no specific number of years beyond which prior bad acts are no longer relevant to the issue of intent.”
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.