United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 915 · 1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2004
15 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. § 2113
Relies on Quercia v. United States · United States v. Murdock · Bursten v. United States · Holmes v. United States · Boatright 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]udicial comments must be aimed at aiding the jury's fact finding duties, rather than usurping them”
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.