United States v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.3d 621 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2024
5 federal appellate · 4 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 16 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 3401 · 18 U.S.C. § 3402
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Singleton v. Wulff · Neder v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]trict liability is generally disfavored in criminal law, particularly with respect to cases that implicate the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the court's initial [evidentiary] ruling, correct when made, is proved erroneous in the light of subsequent evidence,”
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.