United States v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 256 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Dickey (1984), United States v. Espinosa (1985)
24 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3500
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Kotteakos v. United States · Abney v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Beckwith 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Jencks Act 1 protects Government files from unnecessary and vexatious 'fishing expeditions' by defendants. . . . At the same time the Act assures defendants their Sixth Amendment rights to confront their accusers by compelling the Government to produce 'statements' that may be useful for impeachment of Government witnesses.”
1 later decision 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.