United States v. Stafford’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 1479 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2015
18 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1510 · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Blum v. Stenson · Brown v. Ohio · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever willfully endeavors by means of bribery to obstruct ... the communication of information relating to ... any criminal statute ... to a criminal investigator shall be fined ... or imprisoned____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Congress ordinarily does not intend to punish the same offense under two different statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“each [offense] requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
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.