United States v. Eckmann’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 308 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2000
15 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
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Patterson v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Williams 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Relevant evidence’ means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Percy
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.