United States v. Chamley’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 57 · 1967
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1993
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United States v. Falcone · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Gately · Dardi v. United States
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 is generally permitted to bring out the criminal record of its witnesses on direct examination. ‘The matter of informing court and jury about information of such clear relevance as the criminal record of a witness called by the prosecution is not something which is to be reserved for the pleasure and strategy of the defense.’ United States v. Freeman, 302 F.2d 347, 350 (2d Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 958 , 84 S.Ct. 448 , 11 L.Ed.2d 316 (1963). The jury may also be apprised of the fact that a co-defendant has pleaded guilty, either by instructions from the court, United States v. Dardi, 330 F.2d 316, 332-333 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 379 U.S. 845 , 85 S.Ct. 50, 13 L.Ed.2d 50 (1964), or by the testimony of a Government witness, United States v. Aronson, 319 F.2d 48, 51 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 920 , 84 S.Ct. 264 , 11 L.Ed.2d 164 (1963). Cf., United States v. Jannsen, 339 F.2d 916, 919 (7th Cir. 1964). ‘The claim that it was improper for the government to bring out on direct examination of its key witnesses that they had already pleaded guilty to the conspiracy is not convincing. The proponent of a witness need not allow such information damaging to his credibility to be first established on cross-examination _’ United States v. Mahler, 363 F.2d 673, 678 (2d Cir. 1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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