United States v. Rixner’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 1224 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. (1978), United States v. Fosher (1978)
25 federal appellate · 7 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 Lutwak v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Barrett v. United States · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Hampton 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court finds that the photographs were erroneously admitted, but constitute only harmless error in light of the strong evidence otherwise introduced regarding defendant-Jones' participation in the conspiracy and identification of him by other witnesses and the in-court identification of him by Mrs. Willard [Citations omitted] . . . However, the assistant United States Attorneys and other government prosecutors should take heed regarding the introduction of mugshots during trial and if this practice is continued, future cases may very well be reversed [Citation omitted]. . . ." (Emphasis supplied) Rixner , supra, at 1226 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * government prosecutors should take heed regarding the introduction of mugshots during trial and if this practice is continued, future cases may very well be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gutierrez
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.