United States v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 894 · 1977
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives (1979), Securities and Exchange Commission v. First City Financial Corporation Ltd (1989)
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 25 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 South Dakota v. Opperman · Hoffman v. United States · Cady v. Dombrowski · Holt v. United States · Rogers 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may appraise a claim of privilege in light of his personal perception of the peculiarities of the case and should not be overruled unless it is perfectly clear that the witness is mistaken and that the answers cannot possibly incriminate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a witness may not testify as to the broad outlines of a matter and then assert a privilege as to the particulars,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To grant a motion for acquittal, the court must find that when viewed in the light most favorable to the government, the evidence is such that a reasonable juror must have reasonable doubt as to the existence of any of the essential elements of the crime.”
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.