United States v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 238 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2012
11 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on United States v. Gaddis · United States v. Harris · United States v. Conder · United States v. Viserto · United States v. Wilkerson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any criminal prosecution brought by the United States, no statement or report in the possession of the United States which was made by a Government witness or prospective government witness (other than the defendant) shall be the subject of ... discovery ... until said witness has testified on direct examination in the trial of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prior to trial, as part of an informal policy in the district, appellant’s counsel was permitted to inspect the case file of the U.S. Attorney. Mrs. Johnson's statement was not in the file. After the inspection by defense counsel and before trial, the eyewitness, Freddie Griffen, was murdered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re United States
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.