United States v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 970 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably United States v. Hall (1998), United States v. Wylie (1990)
22 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harris v. New York · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Santoni v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The defendant who testifies has chosen to make an issue of his credibility. The government, accordingly, has a right to challenge the defendant's story on cross-examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t~he government's questions must be reasonably related to the subjects covered by the defendant's direct testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'[a]ny prejudice deriving from the invocation of the privilege is ... attributed to [his] decision to testify'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.