United States v. Dale’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 819 · 1993
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 28 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Stewart (2002), United States v. White (1997)
112 federal appellate · 28 district · 12 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Blockburger v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Estelle v. McGuire · United States v. Ventresca
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to investigate fully is not evidence of an affiant's reckless disregard for the truth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because we did not know which of three separate legal theories advanced by the government the district court had adopted and what facts, if any, it relied on to support its chosen theory”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the case of ... tax evasion allegations, specificity is even more difficult because evidence of the crime[ ] can be found in almost every type of business document conceivable.”
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.