United States v. Ehrlich’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 327 · 1990
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Connell (1992), United States v. Hill (1990)
47 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. § 656
Relies on Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Mabry v. Johnson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contributed in some substantial way to facilitating the crime [as opposed to merely providing] an opportunity that could as easily have been afforded to other persons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the defendant abused a position of public trust ... in a manner that significantly facilitated the commission or concealment of the offense....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prejudicial imbalance in the charge as a whole,”
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.