United States v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
290 F.3d 1279 · 2002
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Kimler (2003), United States v. Rearden (2003)
60 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2256
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition · Mickens v. Taylor
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This standard requires the appellate court to find that the evidence on a key element of the offense is so tenuous that a conviction would be shocking.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when determining whether [the instructions] misstate the law or mislead the jury to the prejudice of the objecting party.” United States v. Bender, 290 F.3d 1279 , 1284 (11th Cir.2002) (quotation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjection of a young child to a sexual act that would have to be painful”
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.