United States v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 704 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Gaskin (2004), United States v. McVeigh (1998)
25 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. § 3582 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Berman v. United States · United States v. Barnes · United States v. Thai · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Panebianco
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts face a delicate and complex task whenever they undertake to investigate reports of juror misconduct or bias during the course of a trial ... [A]ny such investigation is intrusive and may create prejudice by exaggerating the importance and impact of what may have been an insignificant incident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court, which 'observ[es] the jury on a day to day basis . . . is in the best position to sense the atmosphere of the courtroom as no appellate court can on a printed record.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review a trial judge's handling of juror misconduct for abuse of discretion.”
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.