United States v. Nance’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 615 · 1974
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Brown (1976), United States v. Brien (1980)
95 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Cree v. Goldstein · United States v. Maze
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to use its own language in framing instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party may not stand idly by, watching the proceedings and allowing the Court to commit error of which he subsequently complains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant is entitled to an instruction on his theory of the case if there is evidence to support it and a proper request is entered.”
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.