United States v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 101 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Alvarez (1985), United States v. Harrelson (1985)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Chapman v. State of California · Fahy v. Connecticut · Houltin v. United States · United States v. Caceres · Hullum 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant has the heavy burden of showing specific and compelling prejudice resulting from a joint trial which can be rectified only by separate trials.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent and predisposition to commit the acts charged was established largely by recorded evidence of his own statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a]s a general rule, especially in conspiracy cases, parties who are jointly indicted should be tried together,'”
1 later decision 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.