United States v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
480 F.2d 1249 · 1973
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Perez (1973), United States v. Berkowitz (1981)
38 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2113
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · California v. Green · Opper v. United States · Schaffer 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do emphasize, however, that . the trial judge has a continuing duty at all stages of the trial to grant a severance if prejudice does appear. And where, as here, the charge which originally justified joinder turns out to lack the support of sufficient evidence, a trial judge should be particularly sensitive to the possibility of such prejudice.”
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.