United States v. Singh’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 758 · 1980
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Concepcion (1992), United States v. Casamento (1989)
78 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1542 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Estelle v. Williams · Bullock v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient information to make a discriminating appraisal of the particular witness's possible motives for testifying falsely in favor of the government.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Stewart Color Laboratory. Viewing this evidence and the inferences which might be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the government, a reasonable jury could fairly conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Armone was guilty. 14 Migliorisi's argument that there was insufficient evidence to convict him due to the lack of credibility of the witness who testified against him is without merit. In an examination of the evidence to determine whether sufficient proof was adduced for the jury to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is also the rule in this circuit that although credibility generally may not be supported until it has first been attacked, an exception exists which allows the Government to bring out on direct examination the circumstances surrounding a witness’ motivation for cooperating with the Government or other matters damaging to the witness’ credibility. Admission of this evidence is permitted in order to avoid an inference by the jury that the Government is attempting to keep from the jury the witness’ possible bias.”
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.