Yates v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.2d 586 · 1967
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2016
11 federal appellate · 8 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 912 · 8 U.S.C. § 111
Relies on Sansone v. United States · Hunt v. United States · Parker v. United States · Williams v. United States · Evans 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A lesser-included offense instruction is only proper where the charged greater offense requires the jury to find a disputed factual element which is not required for conviction of the lesser-included offense."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. State · Royster v. State
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.