United States v. Brevard’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 180 · 1984
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably United States v. Walton (1990), United States v. Miller (1989)
34 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. § 2113
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · United States v. Holman · United States v. Smith
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where an inference about the result of the test may be critical in assessing the witness' credibility, and (2) whether the witness' credibility is vital to the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where an impermissible reference to a polygraph has been interjected, the court usually may cure the error by striking the evidence and instructing the jury to disregard it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.