United States v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 1089 · 1971
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Hearn v. Rhay (1975), Government of the Virgin Islands v. Gereau (1975)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. United States · Scales v. United States · Campbell v. United States · Beckman Instruments, Inc. v. Chemtronics, Inc. · United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The jury should not be exposed to post-verdict fishing expeditions into their mental processes with the hope that something will turn up.””
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.