United States v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 285 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2010
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1461 · 18 U.S.C. § 2252
Relies on United States v. Russell · Stanley v. Georgia · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Stanford v. Texas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant that the defense of entrapment comes into play.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“youthful lads and lasses of neophyte age.”
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.