Fineberg v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 417 · 1968
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Bellis v. United States (1974), United States v. Johnson (1978)
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Wilson v. United States · Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States · O'Connell v. Manning
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the witness must have such knowledge or experience in [his] field or calling as to make it appear that his opinion or inference will probably aid the trier in his search for truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he admissibility of expert testimony [as] a subject peculiarly within the sound discretion of the trial judge, who alone must decide the qualifications of the expert on a given subject and the extent to which his opinions may be required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.