United States v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.3d 482 · 2000
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably United States v. Carter (2005), Pinkston v. Madry (2006)
12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Taylor v. United States · United States v. Tolson · United States v. Gallman · Durrive 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[trial judge] has... the best `opportunity to observe the verbal and non-verbal behavior of the witnesses focusing on the subject's reactions and responses to the interrogatories, their facial expressions, attitudes, tone of voice, eye contact, posture and body movements,' as well as confused or nervous speech patterns in contrast with merely looking at the cold pages of an appellate record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“held that the trial judge is in the best position to judge the credibility of witnesses who offer conflicting testimony ....”
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.