United States v. Laymon’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1051 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Wacker (1995), United States v. Hatfield (1987)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Bass · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Patterson v. United States · United States v. Freed · Scarborough 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a motion for a mistrial should be granted is within the discretion of the trial judge because he is in the best position to evaluate the effect of the offending evidence on the jury.”
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.