United States v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 696 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Theus v. State (1992), United States v. Kelly (2007)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · United States v. Mahone · United States v. Smith · United States v. Cavender · United States v. Fearwell
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Evidence that [the] witness has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted ... if it readily can be determined that establishing the elements of the crime required proof or admission of an act of dishonesty or false statement by the witness.”
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.