United States v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 711 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 40 Cal. 4th 1179 - People v. Prince (2007), United States v. Hankey (2000)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Reid v. Georgia · Penson v. Ohio · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Roy v. Gravel
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“prosecutor to ask an expert's opinion as to whether a hypothetical defendant in a hypothetical factual scenario, indistinguishable from the defendant and facts in the case before the court, had the intent necessary for conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is typical for people to conceal weapons in the engine compartments of their cars . . . because police seldom search there . . . and . . . if discovered, it is easier to claim that they did not know about the weapon.”
1 later decision 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.