United States v. Leake’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 715 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Maurer (1984), United States v. Tomblin (1995)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 371
Relies on United States v. Nyman · United States v. Carter · United States v. Walton · United States v. Groomer
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the importance of the testimony to the government's case, the relevance of the conduct to the witness's truthfulness, and the danger of prejudice, confusion, or delay raised by the evidence sought to be adduced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pattern of fraudulent activity that, if revealed, would have placed [the witness'] credibility in question.”
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.