United States v. Beechum’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 898 · 1978
Citation profile
913 federal appellate · 15 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,302 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Huddleston v. United States (1988), Dowling v. United States (1990)
913 federal appellate · 15 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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. § 1708
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Nixon
Cited together with Santoni v. United States · Glasser v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · Bell v. United States · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
250 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Mr. Beechum gave no explanation for his possession of the silver dollars. In fact, he told (the inspector), "you have all the answers, and I don't have any for you.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless its probative value is `substantially outweighed by its undue prejudice,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.