United States v. LaBarbera’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 988 · 1972
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2008
10 federal appellate · 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. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Callanan v. United States · United States v. Varelli
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The Smith court reaffirmed the earlier ruling in Alford v. United States, 282 U.S. 687 , 51 S.Ct. 218 , 75 L. Ed. 624 (1931), which initially set the perimeters of cross-examination by imposing a duty on the court to prohibit questions threatening a witness’s Fifth Amendment rights as well as questions which, '. . . go beyond the bounds of proper cross-examination merely to harass, annoy or humiliate [the witness]. . ’ Alford v. United States, at page 693, 51 S.Ct. at page 220 . A further exception to unlimited cross-examination is represented by Justice White’s concurring opinion in Smith , as to inquiries which, upon a proper showing, endanger the personal safety of a witness. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grimes v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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