Eason v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.2d 818 · 1960
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Hernandez v. United States (1962), Arellanes v. United States (1962)
101 federal appellate · 13 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 18 U.S.C. § 545
Relies on Remmer v. United States · Rodriguez v. New York · United States v. Bayer · Scott Paper Co. v. McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc. · Morgan v. Ohio
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undue emphasis given to the introduced evidence with consequent distortion of the evidence as a whole and the possibility that such prejudice will result to the other party as to require a mistrial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of close friendship, joint venture and general conduct were sufficient to warrant a reasonable jury finding beyond reasonable doubt that possession was joint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so patently reasonable as to warrant our ruling as a matter of law that an inference of knowledge was not available from the facts of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byars v. State
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.