United States v. Ring’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 1001 · 1975
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably United States v. Beechum (1978), United States v. Hearst (1977)
116 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 4244 · 18 U.S.C. § 876
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Dusky v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Spies v. United States · Michelson v. United States
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requisite criminal intent would normally be inferred from the criminal act”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have also held that 'to show a consistent pattern of conduct relating to the offense charged the evidence must be of prior similar acts reasonably near in time to the offense charged.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Evidence of a criminal defendant’s prior misconduct is inadmissible in the prosecution’s case in chief to show the accused’s bad character or criminal propensity.”
2 later decisions 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.