United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 166 · 1994
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. Krout (1995), United States v. Inocencio (1994)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Santoni v. United States · Pelaes v. United States · Alexander 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain error occurs only when the instruction, considered as a whole, was so clearly erroneous as to result in the likelihood of a grave miscarriage of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Permanent or life-threatening bodily injury” means injury involving a substantial risk of death; loss or substantial impair ment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty that is likely to be permanent; or an obvious disfigurement that is likely to be permanent. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away”
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.