United States v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 45 · 1976
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 12 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 15 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Marshall (1997), United States v. Halbert (1981)
93 federal appellate · 12 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 25 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Oyler v. Boles · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the supplementation of voter lists is the exception, not the rule, and absent a showing of deficient representation the use of an approved jury selection process is lawful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forfeited his right to self-representation by his vacillating positions which continued until just six days before the case was set for trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grounded in sufficient scientific support to warrant use in the courtroom,”
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.