United States v. Knife’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 472 · 1979
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Iron Shell (1980), United States v. Lincoln (1980)
121 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Mincey v. Arizona · Harrington v. California · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to sever under Rule 14 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court. A denial of severance is not grounds for reversal unless clear prejudice and an abuse of discretion are shown. To establish grounds for reversal, a defendant must show something more than the mere fact that his chances for acquittal would have been better had he been tried separately. He must “affirmatively demonstrate that the joint trial prejudiced [his] right to a fair trial.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ssault by striking, beating, or wounding....,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdiction,”
2 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.