United States v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 928 · 1997
Citation profile
38 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Vallejo (2001), United States v. Shipsey (2004)
38 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. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Gaudin · Gibson v. United States · Kellogg v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o warrant reversal in a case where a Gaudin-type error is made, the error must 'seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an act is done knowingly if the defendant is aware of the act and does not act through ignorance, mistake, or accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a jury instruction misstates elements of a statutory crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. Price
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.