United States v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
830 F.2d 150 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States of America v. Zolton Williams (2000), United States v. Hooks (1988)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · James v. United States · Webb v. Texas · United States v. Morrison · United States v. Hammond
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“followed such a method, or believed in good faith he was following the method, criminal liability cannot be imposed upon him”
1 later decision 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.