United States v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 265 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Pungitore (1990), United States v. Bethancourt (1995)
15 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Braverman v. United States · Duckworth v. Eagan · Miller v. Haynes · Collins 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the [location] of the two alleged conspiracies is the same; (b) there is a significant degree of temporal overlap between the two conspiracies charged; (c) there is an overlap of personnel between the two conspiracies (including unindicted as well as indicted coconspirators); and (d) the overt acts charged and [ (e) ] the role played by the defendant according to the two indictments are similar.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he guarantee against double jeopardy does not insulate a criminal for subsequent offenses merely because he chooses to continue committing the same type of crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“These were two different objectives and agreements, and hence two conspiracies.”
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.