United States v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.3d 60 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2020
8 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Olano · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Hasting · Jones 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it [was] impossible to know how [the witness] might have testified absent [the government's] conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“despite an express invitation by the trial judge”
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.