United States v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 1441 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Gonzalez v. Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. (1998), United States of America v. Guy J. Westmoreland (2001)
43 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Young · Darden v. Wainwright · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so infected ... the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) [t]he court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false[;] (b) [t]he jury might have reached a different conclusion absent the false testimony or if it had known that testimony by a material witness was false[; and] (c) [t]he party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at the remarks in light of the entire record to determine if the defendant [was] deprived of a fair trial.”
3 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.