United States v. Mobley’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.2d 345 · 1970
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably United States v. MacCloskey (1982), 15 Cal. 3d 540 - People v. Rojas (1975)
27 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 2113
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Pointer v. Texas · Harrington v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Barber v. Page
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the nature and extent of the wounds inflicted being obviously such that he must have felt or known he could not survive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Beauchamp · Webb v. Lane““We find no violation here of the principles expressed in Mattox v. United States, 156 U.S. 237 , 15 S.Ct. 337 , 39 L.Ed. 409 (1895) and Barber v. Page, 390 U.S. 719 , 88 S.Ct. 1318 , 20 L.Ed.2d 255 (1968), relative to the rights of an accused to confrontation and the opportunity to have a jury assess the demeanor and credibility of a witness. Both of these requirements were satisfied by the former trial, where the witness was under oath and thoroughly examined on both direct and cross-examination * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[n]o less unavailable than [he would have been in instances of] death or absence from the country or physical inability to speak.””
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.