United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 415 · 1983
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Hiland (1990), United States v. Lucas (1991)
27 federal appellate ·
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. Webb · United States v. Boykin · Roberts v. Hollocher · United States v. Drury · United States v. Bernhardt
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cross-examination may embrace any matter germane to direct examination, qualifying or destroying it, or tending to elucidate, modify, explain, contradict or rebut testimony given by the witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a defendant takes the stand, his credibility is placed in issue, and the Government is entitled to attack it by cross-examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“broad discretion in determining the relevancy and admissibility of evidence ... and in setting the limits of cross-examination.”
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.