United States v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 746 · 1978
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Sanchez-Lopez (1989), United States v. Roberts (1980)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Glasser v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Quercia v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Johnson 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'expected to sit mute and impassive, speaking only to rule on motions or objections.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because of the conduct of a trial judge in 'rebuking or punishing [counsel]' or otherwise intervening in the proceedings, 'it must appear that the conduct measured by the facts of the case presented together with the result of the trial, was clearly prejudicial to the rights of the party.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From our hindsight we may say that a greater reluctance to intervene may have been warranted,”
2 later decisions 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.