United States v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 667 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Newsom (2006), United States v. Fisher (2011)
20 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 18 U.S.C. § 894
Relies on Kentucky v. Indiana · Jones v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board · United States v. Newcomb · Colorado Energy Supply Inc National Acceptance Company of America v. Price · United States v. Giacalone
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.
“clear up uncertainties which the jury brings to its attention”
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.