Pigford v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 831 · 1975
Citation profile
61 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Walker v. Engle (1983), United States v. Arrington (1983)
61 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 1349 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Beck v. Washington · Stroble v. California · Byrne v. Karalexis · Saia v. United States · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he credibility of witnesses is a matter solely within the provence of the jury, and is not reviewable by this court.”
4 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.