United States v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 874 · 1994
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Nelson (1998), United States v. Rude (1996)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Nevada Bankruptcy Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Stinson v. United States · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant recklessly created a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person in the course of fleeing from a law enforcement officer.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'reckless' ... when he is aware of but disregards the risk created by his conduct, and when that conduct involves 'a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... be admissible for [] purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
4 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.