Weaver v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.2d 799 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2009
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. § 2314
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Boyd v. United States · Isaacs 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have in Homan v. United States, 8 Cir., 279 F.2d 767 , 771, and in many other cases, followed the harmless error rule set forth in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750 , 764-765, 66 S.Ct. 1239 , 1248, 90 L.Ed. 1557 , thus stated: ‘If when all is said and done, the conviction is sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect, the verdict and the judgment should stand, except perhaps where the departure is from a constitutional norm or a specific command of Congress.’ “We have also pointed out that prompt action by the trial court in sustaining objections to misconduct on the part of the prosecution and the giving of appropriate instructions to the jury to disregard the statement go far toward eliminating the effect of improper statements by counsel and that except in aggravated situations it cannot be fairly assumed that the jury will disregard such instructions. Koolish v. United States, 8 Cir., 340 F.2d 513 , 533; Blauner v. United States, 8 Cir., 293 F.2d 723 , 737; Isaacs v. United States, supra. [ 301 F.2d 706 , 737.]” 379 F.2d 799 , 802.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“grand jury, ... selected from the same group of people that you were selected from, sat and heard the Government's evidence in the case and then determined that there was probable cause to make a charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is absolutely no evidence of the guilt of the defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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