United States v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 655 · 1974
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. Williams (1980), United States v. Cardenas (1993)
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chambers v. Maroney · Chambers v. Mississippi · Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · MacKenna v. Ellis
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A careful reading of the record reveals nothing to sustain the charge that trial counsel was incompetent or neglectful. . . . There was no motion for judgment of acquittal. The evidence here was sufficient, indeed ample, and to send the case to the jury, and no miscarriage of justice occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The credibility of a witness may be attacked by any party, including the party calling him.”
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.