United States v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 7 · 1996
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), United States v. Miller (1997)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Sokolow
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] declarant is not unavailable as a witness if exemption, refusal, claim of lack of memory, inability, or absence is due to the procurement or wrongdoing of the proponent of a statement for the purpose of preventing the witness from attending or testifying.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we review de novo the legal issues presented [and] we accept the district court's factual findings unless clearly erroneous, ... view[ing] those facts in the light most favorable to the government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he sponsor of a declarant's former testimony may not create the condition of unavailability and then benefit therefrom.”
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.