United States v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.3d 885 · 2007
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2025
16 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1112
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Ornelas v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Atkinson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such cases, Federal Rule of Evidence 613(b) provides that "[e]xtrinsic evidence of a prior inconsistent statement ... is not admissible unless the witness is afforded an opportunity to explain or deny [the prior statement] and the opposite party is afforded an opportunity to interrogate the witness [about the statement]....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xigent circumstances exist when there is a risk of destruction of evidence, including a risk that a defendant's blood-alcohol content will dissipate because `the body functions to eliminate [alcohol] from the system.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Shriner
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.