United States v. Eley’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 1522 · 1984
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Baker (2005)
71 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Missouri v. Hunter · Albernaz v. United States · Benjamin v. United States · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette · Hall v. Cole
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly an invitation to the prosecutor to protest to the contrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]holly incredible explanations may also form a sufficient basis to allow the jury to find that the defendant had the requisite guilty knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so implausible that it [gave] rise to positive evidence in favor of the government”
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.