United States v. Vergara’s Empirical Analysis
714 F.2d 21 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Abudu (1988), Drew v. State (1987)
24 federal appellate · 5 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 New York v. Ferber · United States v. Martino · United States v. Vergara · United States v. Metz · Ledet 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not unusual for one of two convicted accomplices to assume the entire fault and thus exculpate his codefendant by the filing of a recanting affidavit or other statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tandard for review of the denial of a motion for new trial on [grounds of newly discovered evidence] rests in the sound discretion of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not favored by the courts and are viewed with great caution”
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.