United States v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 63 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2006
11 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Cass v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group · Knowles v. United States · United States v. Nolan · United States v. Lawson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could have remained entirely silent, in which case comment on that fact by the prosecutor would not have been proper. He chose to express himself, however, and testimony as to what he did say was in evidence. As such it was a fair subject for comment by the prosecutor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“latitude in closing argument to make fair comment on the evidence and to draw reasonable inferences therefrom.”
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.