United States v. Fleishman’s Empirical Analysis
684 F.2d 1329 · 1982
Citation profile
220 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Bishop (1992), United States v. Young (1984)
220 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 955 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3244 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Gideon v. Wainwright · Ohio v. Roberts · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Tucker
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is undisputed that handwriting analysis is a science in which expert testimony assists a jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nonetheless, 'plain errors or defects affecting the substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court.' " Id. (quoting Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b)). 5 "In considering a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we consider whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] prosecutor may properly comment upon a defendant's failure to present witnesses so long as it is not phrased as to call attention to defendant's own failure to testify,”
4 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.