United States v. Rackstraw’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1476 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Wacker (1995), United States v. Kunzman (1995)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Huddleston v. United States · Santoni v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · McGautha v. California · In re Martin-Trigona
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have long recognized the relevance of prior crimes in the context of narcotics violations where the uncharged misconduct is close in time and similar in method to the charged scheme and where knowledge or intent was at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the evidence was prejudicial to [defendant], we cannot say that it was unfairly prejudicial, much less that any unfair prejudice 'substantially' outweighed its strong probative value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A] defendant who takes the stand in his own behalf cannot then claim the privilege against cross-examination on matters reasonably related to the subject matter of his direct examination.”
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.