United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 681 · 1978
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Baker (1993), United States v. Benny (1986)
69 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only goes to the issue of reviewability and not to the issue of whether a reversal is warranted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Creech v. Arave · Creech v. Arave“such comment is extensive, where an inference of guilt from silence is stressed to the jury as a basis of conviction, and where there is evidence that could have supported acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quigg v. Crist
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.