United States v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 641 · 1969
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably United States v. Zannino (1990), United States v. Tortora (1972)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Pate v. Robinson · United States v. Knohl · United States v. Armone · United States v. Dilliard
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of competence to stand trial is basically a question of fact; [and] the trial judge is in a better position to resolve it than the appellate courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the procedure to be used in allowing use of prior inconsistent statements in cross-examination of a witness.”
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.