United States v. Acosta’s Empirical Analysis
369 F.2d 41 · 1966
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2013
13 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. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Young Estate · Estate of Kisling
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While handwriting analysis may not be as scientifically accurate as fingerprint identification, it is, on the whole, probably no less rebable than eyewitness identification which is often made after a quick glance at a human face.”
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.