United States v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 1300 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2024
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 495
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Trudo v. United States · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · United States v. Cole · United States v. Madden
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting his credibility, other than conviction of crime as provided in Rule 609, may not be proved by extrinsic evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the crime for which no conviction had been obtained.”
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.