United States v. Swacker’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 1250 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Moran (1985), United States v. Birney (1982)
34 federal appellate · 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Lovasco · Garner v. United States · United States v. Washington · New Jersey v. Portash · United States v. Allsup
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fifth amendment privilege proscribes only self-incrimination obtained by a genuine compulsion of testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“you are the judges of the facts. " See id. at 1254 (noting with approval that the court instructed the jury to disregard any inference that could have been suggested by the court's development of the facts). In light of the above, the judge's intervention in the trial did not deprive Parker of a fair trial. Prosecutorial Vouching 21 Parker next argues that the prosecutor improperly vouched for the credibility of his witnesses when he suggested that it was improbable that Johnson, Elder, and Washington were paid off for their testimony and lied on the stand since they had no opportunity to collaborate and make their stories consistent after their arrest. 22 "Claims that a prosecutor improperly vouched for the credibility of witnesses are reviewed for plain error when, as here, no objection was made by the defendant.”
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.