United States v. Homer’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 864 · 1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Zehrbach (1995), United States v. Cerilli (1979)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Donnelly v. United States · Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · Taylor v. United States · Zanfardino 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have since limited Schartner to its facts; Schartner requires a per se reversal only when the prosecutor expresses an opinion on the guilt of a defendant based on evidence not in the record. . Although the remark at issue 1 does represent a comment on evidence outside of the record, it does not constitute an opinion on the guilt [of the defendant.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not so shocking as to suggest to the defense that it seek curative instructions immediately. Moreover, in response to the defendant's subsequent complaint, the trial judge admonished the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prosecutor should not use arguments calculated to inflame the passions or prejudices of the jury.”
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.