United States v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 299 · 1994
Citation profile
63 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably United States v. Ross (1996), United States v. Johnson-Dix (1995)
63 federal appellate ·
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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Santobello v. New York · United States v. Dunnigan · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] district court's Rule 403 balancing is afforded a special degree of deference: [o]nly in an extreme case are appellate judges competent to second-guess the judgment of the person on the spot, the trial judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“tenure in the conspiracy may have been relatively short”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a defendant objects to a sentence enhancement resulting from [his] trial testimony, [the] district court must review the evidence and make independent findings necessary to establish a willful impediment to or obstruction of justice, or an attempt to do the same.”
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.