United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 1237 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1984), United States v. Shortt Accountancy Corp. (1986)
24 federal appellate · 1 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. § 545 · 19 U.S.C. § 1461 (Tariff Act of 1930)
Relies on Acosta v. United States · United States v. Noah · Olais-Castro v. United States · United States v. Hall · United States v. Nevitt
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge may refuse an instruction if its language gives undue emphasis to defendant's version of the facts rather than being 'a statement of appropriate principles of [the] law for the jury to apply to the facts,' or if it would tend to influence the jury toward accepting the defendant's version of the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is reversible error to fail to instruct as to a defendant's defensive theory if the record contains evidentiary support for the theory and the theory is supported by law. Yet, it is not required that a jury be instructed in line with the chosen words of the accused.”
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.