United States v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
662 F.2d 728 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2010
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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Anderson · Baldwin v. Blackburn · United States v. Burroughs
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be based on the totality of circumstances in the entire record rather than on specific actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Zant“could have been based on sound tactical reasons,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Dugger
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.