United States v. Larry’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 1149 · 1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2013
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act)
Relies on Brady v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Wade v. Hunter · Illinois v. Somerville · United States v. Josef Perez
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sole limitation on the authority of the court to determine that a mistrial is 'manifestly necessary' is that the judge must exercise his 'sound discretion' in determining that the ends of public justice would not be served by a continuation of the proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a deadlocked jury being compelled to continue deliberations ... more often than not defeats the ends of justice; not only will such compulsion needlessly waste valuable judicial resources, it may coerce erroneous verdicts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After responding to the questions presented by the jury, the court engaged the forelady in the following colloquy: The Court: Now bearing those questions in mind I don’t think that I have helped you much, if any, with the question you have asked because I feel satisfied that I am not permitted to any farther for fear of creating error. Is it your opinion, Madam Forelady, that you will be unable to reach a verdict? The Forelady: Yes it is. The Court: And that you are definitely at a deadlock? The Forelady: Yes sir. We seem to be. The Court: You seem to be? The Forelady: Yes. The Court: Do you think it would continue? The Forelady: We haven’t made any headway at all. The Court: And has it been, whatever the situation, I don’t want to know the numbers, has it been that way from the outset? The Forelady: Yes, sir. The Court: And hasn’t changed. The Forelady: No, sir. The Court: Under the circumstances that here exist I do declare this to be a mistrial ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.