United States v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.3d 636 · 1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2014
4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Hernandez · Mendoza v. Brown · United States v. Leisure · United States v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no reasonable probability that the verdict would have been different had the results of the fingerprint analysis been made known to Sumner prior to trial.”
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.