United States v. Desposito

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that an attempt must include \something more than mere preparation\ (quoting United States v. Farhane , 634 F.3d 127 , 147 (2d Cir. 2011) )
• holding that the use of fire to divert police attention from the commission of a bank robbery qualified as a Section 844(h)(1) offense
• holding that bank robber who set a fire to distract police responders “used” fire under § 844(h)(1) as the fire “was an integral part of [the robbery] scheme”
• holding that defendant has fair warning where plain language of statute proscribes his conduct
• noting that, to prove intent, the government had to show that the appellant’s actions “had the natural and probable effect” of obstructing his criminal trial
• affirming conviction because the defendant had planned “to create fraudulent evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Second Circuit· 2013-08-30· cited 162×
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  Second Circuit· 2013-05-07· cited 112×
• Federal Housing Finance Agency v. UBS Americas Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-04-05· cited 85×
• Gordon v. Softech International, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-07-31· cited 33×
• United States v. Joseph Fischer
  D.C. Circuit· 2023-04-07· cited 32×
• United States v. Halloran
  Second Circuit· 2016-04-28· cited 31×
• Santana v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2013-04-22· cited 24×
• United States v. Martinez
  Second Circuit· 2017-07-07· cited 22×
• United States v. Clinton Thompson, III
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-08-29· cited 18×
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  Second Circuit· 2013-04-01· cited 17×
• United States v. Lee
  Second Circuit· 2013-06-07· cited 16×
• Woodhull Freedom Foundation v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 2023-07-07· cited 9×
• United States v. Ahmed
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-24· cited 8×
• Marisco v. NCO Financial Systems, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2013-05-23· cited 7×
• United States v. Ashburn
  E.D. New York· 2014-12-30· cited 6×
• American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense
  S.D. New York· 2014-08-27· cited 4×
• United States v. Private E2 BRIAN A. MURPHY
  Army Court of Criminal Appeals· 2014-05-30· cited 3×
• Gordon v. Softech Int'l, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-08-01
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• United States v. Saul
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Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bailey v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1995-12-06· cited 3,526×
• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Smith v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 1,468×
• Chapman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 1,362×
• McBoyle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-03-09· cited 514×
• Pettibone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1893-03-20· cited 455×
• United States v. Aguilar
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-21· cited 410×
• United States v. Farhane
  Second Circuit· 2011-02-04· cited 243×
• United States v. Zolton Williams
  Second Circuit· 2000-03-21· cited 208×
• United States v. Robert Chestman
  Second Circuit· 1991-10-07· cited 186×
• United States v. David Manley and Fluer Williams
  Second Circuit· 1980-09-15· cited 184×
• United States v. Frank Quattrone
  Second Circuit· 2006-03-20· cited 168×
• Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk
  Supreme Court· 2011-05-16· cited 149×
• United States v. Franjo Ivic, Nedjelko Sovulj, Ivan Cale and Stipe Ivkosic, Defendants
  Second Circuit· 1983-01-25· cited 146×
• United States v. Al Kassar
  Second Circuit· 2011-09-21· cited 137×
• United States v. Mercado
  Second Circuit· 2009-07-17· cited 122×
• United States v. Jon Geibel, Chad L. Conner, and Gordon K. Allen, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 2004-05-28· cited 113×
• United States v. Kenneth T. Hayward, and William B. Krause, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-10-05· cited 111×
• United States v. Ruiz
  First Circuit· 1997-02-12· cited 93×