United States v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 329 · 1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2019
2 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
Relies on United States v. Sparrow · United States v. Lewis · United States v. Hanyard · United States v. Kirkland
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court's ruling under Rule 35 will be reversed only for illegality or gross abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Doe
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.