Light v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2005
21 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
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Drew v. United States · Yumich v. City of Chicago · Frederick Wiseman v. Massachusetts
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government did not suggest that the evidence would constitute an exception to the rule making other crimes inadmissible, but merely stated that it wished to use the evidence as background material to show how appellant was caught.... Since appellant's arrest was not then in issue, this [the other crimes evidence] was hardly relevant or necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is authority that, where the evidence involves an alleged crime not reduced to judgment, there must be `clear and convincing evidence,' adduced in an initial inquiry, that the defendant is connected with the other crimes before the jury should be permitted to hear the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Appellant contends that the use of the five prior instances of car misuse, which have not been adjudicated, nor connected through evidence with him, was unduly prejudicial to his case. We agree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.