United States v. Lamy’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 1257 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Voda v. Cordis Corp. (2008), United States v. Caraway (2008)
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1151 (Indian Crimes Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Colorado v. Connelly · California v. Beheler · Dickerson v. United States · Greer v. Miller
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless there is an overwhelming probability that the jury will be unable to follow the court's instructions, and a strong likelihood that the effect of the evidence would be devastating to the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“improper effect [the Border Patrol agent's] intimations may have had on the jury ... pales in comparison to the total weight of the government's evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We presume that jurors will follow clear instructions to disregard evidence ....”
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.