United States v. Greschner’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 740 · 1981
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Carson v. Polley (1982), United States v. Keplinger (1985)
21 federal appellate · 10 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1792
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Babich v. United States · Dothard v. Rawlinson · LaRocca 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The reason that prior convictions are disfavored, however, is not that they are irrelevant, but that they may be extremely prejudicial. In the instant case, there was no issue of prejudice since [the victim] was neither a defendant nor a witness.” 647 F.2d at 742, n. 1 ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Braley v. State“[W]here the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provi sion requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * [T]he ‘violent character’ line of proof is relevant to the defendant’s theory of self-defense in that it makes his version that the victim attacked him ‘more probable.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Braley v. State
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.