United States v. Suarez’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 236 · 1973
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably United States v. Young (1984), United States v. Thomas A. Warren, John L. Warren, Jr., Des. E. Schick and David Defina (1978)
36 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on United States v. Warner · Holder v. United States · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong · Mason Braswell v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida · Causey 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure of a witness to comply with the sequestration rule does not of itself render his testimony inadmissible, although it may affect the weight of the testimony; whether such a witness is to be permitted to testify is generally left to the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the government’s evidence failed to eliminate all reasonable doubt that Chiong’s paper bag contained heroin. Chiong may be guilty, but that is not the standard.”
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.