United States v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 286 · 1973
Citation profile
39 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably United States v. Kopituk (1982), United States v. Anderson (1991)
39 federal appellate ·
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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Rodriquez v. United States · Williams v. United States · Balistrieri v. United States · Hall 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strictly relevant to the particular offense charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The admission of irrelevant facts that have a prejudicial tendency is fatal to a conviction, even though there was sufficient relevant evidence to sustain the verdict.”
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.