United States v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 511 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Fisher (2003), United States v. Thompson (1996)
19 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Olano · United States v. Young · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Michel v. United States · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we reaffirm ... that juror questioning of witnesses lies within the trial judge's discretion, we strongly discourage its use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Culkin · Landt v. State“extraordinary or compelling circumstances”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Culkin · Landt v. State“[i]t is difficult for jurors to be both active participants in the adversarial process, embroiled in the questioning of witnesses, and detached observers, passing on the credibility of the witnesses and the plausibility of the facts presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Malone
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.