United States v. Estell’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 697 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2019
16 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. Harding · United States v. Sudduth
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.
“"... There is a point which constitutes a prosecution of the witness for the offense inquired about rather than a testing of his credibility and when that point is reached the court acts properly in closing down the questioning, for there is no valid interest to be served in shifting the emphasis from the accused persons on trial to the witness. [Citation omitted.] After all, he is not the subject of the prosecution."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“credibility may be attacked by showing specific instances of the witness's prior misconduct, other than convictions, which bear on veracity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the presence and identity of the drug is the thing and that the quantity of it is not important.”
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.