United States v. Lash’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 1077 · 1991
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Frost (1997), United States v. Ross (1996)
64 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Allen v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative action to defeat or disavow the purpose of the conspiracy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he dates of the conspiracy remain the same, as do the names of the conspirators and the nature and offices of the operations alleged,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he suffered substantial prejudice as a result of the delay and that the government purposely delayed in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defendant.”
3 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.