United States v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 90 · 1972
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Terry (1983)
44 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Wade · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gilbert v. California · Irvin v. Dowd
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]t was not improper for the prosecutor in his closing arguments to the jury to comment upon the accused’s refusal to provide a handwriting exemplar as directed by the court and, further, that it was not improper for the court to charge the jury that if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused had failed to provide an exemplar as ordered by the court, it might infer that a comparison of such samples with a questioned signature would have been unfavorable to the defendant and favorable to the prosecution. . . (p. 876.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haze“there exists in the district where the prosecution is pending so great a prejudice against the defendant that he cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial at any place fixed by law for holding court in that district”
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.