United States v. Freland’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 1223 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2017
13 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Saunders · United States v. Balzano · United States v. Coleman
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant fails to make a convincing demonstration of a strong need to refrain from testifying on particular counts when[,][w]ithout [the defendant's] testimony, the government offered sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict on these counts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without additional details regarding the circumstances Comer would have testified to, we find this proffered testimony is not specific enough to mandate severance. 107 Additionally, Comer did not have a strong need to refrain from testifying as to the Jones and Smith counts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Comer v. Schriro · Comer v. Schriro“is not so inconsistent or improbable on its face that no reasonable factfinder could accept it.”
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.