United States v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 1075 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2011
16 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. § 2
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Berger v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is equally well settled law where the defense counsel makes remarks in closing that invite the government to respond, the prosecutor may, in rebuttal, enter into areas which would otherwise constitute improper argument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fundamental rule, known to every lawyer ... that argument is limited to the facts in evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is beyond question that invited response is a proper subject of closing argument.”
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.