United States v. Herng Sing Wang’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 502 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2021
9 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Manson v. Brathwaite · Penson v. Ohio · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Mabey v. Official Committee of Equity Security Holders · Alimeg, Inc. v. Shlim
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we now make explicit, the better practice would be for the prosecutor not to ask . . . questions arguably bearing on intent and for a district court not to find such answers admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“guilt was so overwhelming and convincing that any error in the admission of [the detective's] testimony would be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had the mental state constituting an element of the crime charged”
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.