United States v. West’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 652 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2000 · most notably United States v. Young (1985), United States v. Hector Francisco Molina (1991)
20 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Rideout v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Weatherford v. Bursey · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although testimony by a United States Attorney should not be encouraged, such persons are not disqualified as witnesses in cases in which they play no other role.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Expressions of personal opinion by the prosecutor are a form of unsworn, unchecked testimony and tend to exploit the influence of the prosecutor's office and undermine the objective detachment that should separate a lawyer from the cause being argued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Vouching may occur in two ways: the prosecution may place the prestige of the government behind the witness or may indicate that information not presented to the jury supports the witness's testimony.”
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.