United States v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 888 · 1971
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Brown (1972), United States v. Liefer (1985)
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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
Relies on Sansone v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Horning v. District of Columbia · Stevenson v. United States
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.
“including a reconstruction of events gained by accepting the testimony of one or more witnesses only in part.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a device for defendant to invoke the mercy-dispensing prerogative of the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether there was a reasonable basis on which the jury could find the defendant guilty of [the lesser offense] beyond a reasonable doubt yet entertain a reasonable doubt [as to the greater offense].”
2 later decisions 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.