United States v. Sternback’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 353 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1984
20 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Costello v. United States · United States v. Cohen · Bitter v. United States · United States v. Pinna · Terminal Railroad v. Copeland
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.
“... if this defendant's fear of the use of the conviction was indeed the reason why he decided not to testify it was incumbent upon counsel to pursue the question and obtain a definite ruling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would seriously consider not putting him on the stand.”
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.