United States v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 1010 · 1987
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably United States v. Wells (1997), United States v. North (1990)
48 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Bates v. State Bar · Lawrence v. United States · Griffin v. United States · Bronston v. United States · Williams 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not a phrase with a meaning about which men of ordinary intellect could agree, nor one which could be used with mutual understanding by a questioner and answerer unless it were defined at the time it were sought and offered as testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in any case where a count will be submitted to the jury on alternative theories, prudence counsels the trial court to give an augmented unanimity instruction if the defendant requests such a charge”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“preclude convictions that are grounded on little more than surmise or conjecture, and ... prevent witnesses ... from unfairly bearing the risks associated with the inadequacies of their examiners.”
2 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.