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United States v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

840 F.3d 99 · 2016

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Berger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · Old Chief 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the substantive offense committed by one of the conspirators 'could not be reasonably foreseen as a necessary or natural consequence of the unlawful agreement.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “each member of the charged conspiracy is liable for the substantive crimes his coconspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy even if he neither participates in his co-conspirators' crimes nor has any knowledge of them.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “the substantive offense committed by one of the conspirators 'did not fall within the scope of the unlawful project,'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.