United States v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 1206 · 1991
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States of America v. Christopher Fredrick Vonwillie (1995), United States v. Burrows (1994)
105 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 United States v. Harriss · Cheek v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Thompson 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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the context of criminal tax prosecutions is defined as a”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fairly and adequately cover the issues presented,'”
4 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.