United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1252 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2009
11 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1702 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 495
Relies on Bursten v. United States · Walker v. United States · Moody v. United States · United States v. Fischetti · Stevens 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was for the jury to determine which of the witness' stories would be given credence, or indeed whether the witness would be believed at all. The comments by the trial judge clearly infringed upon the jury's credibility determining process and appellant was thereby deprived of a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Warden
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.