United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 863 · 1976
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably United States v. Lighty (2010), United States v. Krasny (1979)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Costello v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · Larrison v. United States · Kirby v. Illinois
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] new trial should be granted when: (a) [t]he court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false[;] (b) [t]hat without it the jury might have reached a different conclusion (emphasis in original)[; and] (c) [t]hat the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the recanted testimony was only collateral, cumulative, or corroborative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so material that it would probably produce a different verdict if a new trial were granted.” Berry v. Georgia, 10 Ga. 511, 527 (1851). 27 . The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. State
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.