United States v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 825 · 1982
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Evans (1989), United States v. Nabors (1990)
143 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Glasser v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hoffa v. United States · Bates v. State Bar · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co.
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a witness disobeys the order of withdrawal, while he may be proceeded against for contempt and his testimony is open to comment to the jury by reason of his conduct, he is not thereby disqualified, and the weight of authority is that he cannot be excluded on that ground merely, although the right to exclude under particular circumstances may be supported as within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remained in court with the 'consent, connivance, procurement or knowledge' of the party seeking his testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In deciding whether evidence is sufficient to withstand a motion for acquittal, we must view the evidence and all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the government. If the evidence is such that we conclude that a reasonable mind might fairly find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the issue is one for the jury.”
2 later decisions 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.