United States v. Yancy’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 70 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2007
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Goss v. Board of Education · American Air Filter Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Isaacs v. United States · United States v. Bohr
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if the prosecutor misstates the law, such an error is harmless where, as here, '[t]he trial court properly instructed the jury to consider only the evidence, and further advised that statements and arguments of counsel are not evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when you flee from the scene of a crime, that can be used against you.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so offensive as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial.”
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.