United States v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 960 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Lawyers Title Insurance v. Dearborn Title Corp. (1997), Acevedo-Ramos v. United States (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Commissioner v. Engle · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Texas v. Louisiana · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Roemer 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a jurisdictional limitation upon the power to prosecute and punish”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not deal with the issue of whether the statute of limitation is a bar to prosecution of a substantive offense[, but rather] ... whether, in a conspiracy case, the government had to prove an overt act charged in the indictment was committed before the limitation expired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantive offense could not be prosecuted if it was not filed before the expiration of the limitation period.”
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.