United States v. Still’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 607 · 1988
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Smith (1992), United States v. Harper (1994)
25 federal appellate ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Infelice v. United States · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · Kelly 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct constituting a substantial step toward commission of the crime that is in pursuit of that intent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual movement toward the bank or actions that are analytically similar to such movement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct strongly corroborative of the firmness of the defendant's criminal intent.”
4 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.