United States v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 158 · 1984
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably United States v. Lighty (2010), Shaw v. Martin (1984)
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Tumey v. State of Ohio · United States v. Johnson · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Kolender v. Lawson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] new trial should be granted when: (a) [t]he court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false[;] (b) [t]hat without it the jury might have reached a different conclusion (emphasis in original)[; and] (c) [t]hat the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Findings of the district court made on a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence should not be disturbed except for most extraordinary circumstances and unless it clearly appears they are not supported by any evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he failure to meet any of the [Wallace ] requirements is fatal,”
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.