United States v. Ruzzano’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.3d 688 · 2001
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Barnes (2011), State v. Bunker (2005)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Olano · Liteky et al United States · Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Glover 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As applied to judges who were formerly [Assistant United States Attorneys], § 455(b)(3) requires some level of actual participation in a case to trigger disqualification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the former government attorney has actually participated in some fashion in the proceedings.”
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.