United States v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2016
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 10 U.S.C. § 839 · 10 U.S.C. § 866 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 928 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 7
Relies on Burks v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · Williams 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my opinion the evidence is not sufficient to support a finding that the accused assaulted the child prior to 12 December 1979. There was testimony of prior bruises and injuries but no evidence to indicate that they were the result of a nonaceidental trauma or an assault by the accused. Some or all of the bruises or injuries could have been the result of accidents suffered by the child, disciplining by Sgt. Irvin, the accused’s husband, or a number of other people having contact with the child. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the staff judge advocate’s analysis of evidential sufficiency is accepted, then further remedial action would be required as to the findings. Appellant has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter committed by means of a fatal assault which occurred on December 12. If the child abuse consists solely of assaults and no assaults occurred prior to December 12, then it would appear that the findings of guilty as to involuntary manslaughter would encompass the other offenses.”
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.