United States v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 181 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Martino (1981), United States v. Khoury (1990)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3060 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness wholly without capacity is difficult to imagine. The question is one particularly suited to the jury as one of weight and credibility, subject to judicial authority to review the sufficiency of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person is competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided in these rules.”
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.