United States v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 249 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Patterson (2005), United States v. Hill (2001)
27 federal appellate · 4 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 Koon v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Rock v. Arkansas · Kliewer v. New Jersey · Isaksen v. Vermont Castings, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision either to give or to refrain from giving an instruction on the subject [of informer credibility] is committed to the discretion of the district court, which is best suited to detect and deal with threats of unreliable testimony.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant is entitled to broad latitude to probe credibility by cross-examination and to have the issues submitted to the jury with careful instructions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an informant may invent or exaggerate matters to obtain extra compensation.”
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.