United States v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 27 · 1993
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994)
41 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 924 · 31 U.S.C. § 5313
Relies on Doerr v. Doerr · Yagow v. United States · Martin v. Delaware · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Norton Ex Rel. Chiles v. Mathews
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“take serial bites at the appellate apple,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'must implement both the letter and the spirit of the mandate, taking into account the appellate court's opinion and the circumstances it embraces.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appellate court may forego the resolution of a jurisdictional question if, as is true here, the appeal is uncomplicated and easily resolved in favor of the party to whose benefit the jurisdictional question would redound.”
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.