United States v. Sassi’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 283 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably United States v. Shabani (1994), Whitfield v. United States (2005)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Yates v. United States · Nash v. United States · United States v. Britton · United States v. Mealy · Singer 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`g[a]ve Congress a formulary: by choosing a text modeled on § 371, it gets an overt-act requirement; by choosing a text modeled on the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, it dispenses with such a requirement.'”
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.