United States v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1490 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. $515,060.42 in United States Currency (1998), United States v. Stewart (1999)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 26 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · Mathews v. United States · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Harris v. McRae
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A government attorney has a duty not to express a personal opinion or belief regarding the truth or falsity of any testimony or evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne of the purposes of section 1955 was to aid in the enforcement of state gambling laws where state enforcement was disabled by corruption of state officials. [Citation omitted] Allowing a state official's alleged complicity in illegal activities to void the convictions here would violate the intent of Congress in enacting section 1955 and distort the clear due process doctrine set forth in Cox and Raley.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when an authorized government official tells the defendant that certain conduct is legal and the defendant believes the official.”
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.