United States v. Lechoco’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 84 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Morgan v. Foretich (1988), United States v. Nick (1979)
15 federal appellate · 8 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 Morissette v. United States · Michelson v. United States · United States v. Brawner · United States v. Lewis · United States v. Bishton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's statements to his psychiatrist fall within the statement to a physician exception to the hearsay rule embodied in Rule 803(4)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Foretich
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.