United States v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
229 F.3d 15 · 2000
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Lighty (2010), United States of America v. George Varoudakis (2000)
32 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Estelle v. McGuire · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Huddleston v. United States · United States v. Zannino
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n abuse of discretion occurs when a relevant factor deserving significant weight is overlooked, or when an improper factor is accorded significant weight, or when the court considers the appropriate mix of factors, but commits a palpable error of judgment in calibrating the decisional scales.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The proper interpretation of the Federal Rules of Evidence is a question of law and is reviewed de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court misapprehended the scope of the Rules it was applying,”
2 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.