United States v. Risi’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 1193 · 1979
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Delgado (2012), United States v. Carter (1984)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Holloway v. Arkansas · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Streeter v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Overturning a jury verdict for prosecutorial misconduct is appropriate only when, 'taken as a whole in the context of the entire case,' the prosecutor's comments 'prejudicially affect[ed the] substantial rights of the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here must be a significant divergence in the interests of the jointly represented person in order for an actual conflict to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The actual conflict must be demonstrated; mere speculation based on joint representation is not sufficient.”
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.