United States v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 962 · 1976
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Barlow (1982), United States v. Avalos (1976)
81 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 471 (Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1992) · 18 U.S.C. § 495
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · Ashe v. Swenson · Russell v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a theory of defense finds some support in the evidence and in the law, a defendant is entitled to some mention of that theory in the instructions.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Motions for a new trial are not favored and are granted only with great caution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven when the supporting evidence is weak or of doubtful credibility,”
3 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.