United States v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 1162 · 1976
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Simpson v. United States (1978), United States v. Carlson (1976)
93 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Bullock v. United States · Mattox v. United States · Keeble v. United States
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a juror may not testify as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury's deliberations”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the power to disturb the express conclusions of twelve.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“uses a firearm to commit any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States . . . shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years,”
2 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.