United States v. Cable’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 1007 · 1971
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1993
15 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. § 472
Relies on United States v. Synnes · United States v. Levin · Cummings v. United States · Seymour-Heath 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have repeatedly held that the plain error rule should be applied with caution and should be invoked only to avoid a plain miscarriage of justice.”
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.