United States v. Ince’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 576 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Cisneros-Gutierrez (2008), United States v. Love (1998)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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. § 113
Relies on United States v. Olano · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · California v. Green
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“highly judgmental process, involving much more of feel than of science.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it does not ask whether we believe that irrespective of the error there was sufficient evidence to convict, but whether ... we believe it 'highly probable that the error did not affect the judgment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“can say 'with fair assurance, after pondering all that happened without stripping the erroneous action from the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.