United States v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 431 · 1983
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Reyes (2002), Hale v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1985)
81 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 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 United States v. Hasting · Fahy v. Connecticut · Quercia v. United States · Fikes v. State of Alabama · Mesarosh v. United States
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to clarify government testimony, to help government counsel, to indicate to government counsel wben he should or should not make objections, to instruct government counsel on how to make his evidence more intelligible, to suggest to him when he should stop the examination of a witness, to indicate to him what he should write on a blackboard in order to illustrate a point to the jury, and the like. In addition, on numerous occasions the court took over the questioning of government witnesses in order to make sure that the somewhat complicated facts of this case were clearly explained.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disclose actual bias on the part of the trial judge [or] leave the reviewing court with an abiding impression that the judge's remarks and questioning of witnesses projected to the jury an appearance of advocacy or partiality.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“always been reluctant to disturb a judgment of conviction by reason of a few isolated, allegedly prejudicial comments of a trial judge.”
3 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.