United States v. Locklear’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 196 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably United States v. Gee (2000), United States of America v. Nazareth Wilson, et al. (2001)
16 federal appellate ·
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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 212 · 18 U.S.C. § 493 · 18 U.S.C. § 656 · 18 U.S.C. § 709
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Hamling v. United States · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · Williams 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an indictment is sufficient if it 'first, contains the elements of the charged offense and fairly informs a defendant of the charge against him which he must defend, and second, enables him to plead double jeopardy as a bar to future prosecution.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we have a duty to evaluate independently the merits of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n indictment that uses the language of the statute when setting forth the offense ... 'as long as the statutory language unambiguously sets out all the elements necessary to constitute the offense.'”
1 later decision 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.