United States v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 361 · 1978
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ohio v. Roberts (1980), United States v. Drougas (1984)
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 17 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Barber v. Page · United States v. Barrett · Dirring v. United States · United States v. Bosch · United States v. Eatherton
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent from the hearing and the proponent of his statement has been unable to procure his attendance ... by process or other reasonable means.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(w)henever due to exceptional circumstances of the case it is in the interest of justice ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“leav[e] until trial the question of whether the deposition will be admitted as evidence”). Rule 804(a) provides, in part, that a witness is unavailable where”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.