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United States v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

916 F.3d 368 · 2019

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1515 · 18 U.S.C. § 2331 (Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2004) · 18 U.S.C. § 2339B (§ 303 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Sorrells v. United States · Mathews v. United States · Luce 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he Government has similarly failed to provide evidence demonstrating that Young ... designed his conduct to thwart [the grand jury] investigation, rather than designing his conduct to obstruct an FBI inquiry ....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “implies 'some formal convocation of the agency in which parties are directed to appear, instead of any informal investigation conducted by any member of the agency.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the only way the jury could have concluded he foresaw a particular grand jury investigation would be through speculation.”
    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.