United States v. Bledsoe’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 888 · 1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably United States v. Beechum (1978), State v. Morgan (1986)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Babich v. United States · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · United States v. Clemons
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an issue on which other crime evidence may be received is raised; (2) . the proffered evidence is relevant to that issue; (3) the evidence is clear and convincing; and (4) . the probative worth outweighs the probable prejudicial impact.”
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.