United States v. Ream’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 1243 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2022
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1732 · 28 U.S.C. § 1733 · 50 U.S.C. § 3806
Relies on Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · Yumich v. City of Chicago · United States v. Cox · Strunk v. United States · United States v. Falk
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as an incident of the constitutional separation of powers, . . . the courts are not free to interfere with the free exercise of the discretionary powers of the attorneys of the United States over criminal prosecutions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an evidentiary hearing need be held only when a defendant presents facts sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt about the prosecutor's motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.