United States v. Karr’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 493 · 1984
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Binder (1985), United States v. Loya (1987)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. § 842 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Brewer v. Williams
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is more probable than not that it affected the verdict.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nlike the fifth amendment right, the sixth amendment right does not depend on an explicit request [for counsel] by the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury, (2) a well-grounded fear that the threat will be carried out, and (3) no reasonable opportunity to escape the threatened harm.”
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.