United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1483 · 1984
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Laurins (1988), United States v. Esparsen (1991)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 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. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Ashe v. Swenson · Costello v. United States · Rideau v. Louisiana · Garber 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judgment of acquittal is not usually admissible”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] judgment of acquittal is hearsay, and there is no exception to the hearsay rule for judgments of acquittal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Before trial defendant moved for a severance of counts sixteen and seventeen [obstruction of justice]. Because all the counts grew out of the same scheme, joinder was proper under Fed.R.Crim.P. 8(a). Defendant argued that evidence on counts sixteen and seventeen would unfairly prejudice the jury against him on the first fifteen counts. Since the trial court entered judgments of acquittal on the first fifteen counts [RICO and fraud], there was no harm to defendant on those counts. We find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s refusal to sever.”
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.