United States v. Assi’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 62 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2006
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Cupp v. Naughten · Bollenbach v. United States · Ingraham v. Wright · McCray v. New York · United States v. Terry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law permits a defendant at his own request to testify in his own behalf. The testimony of an individual defendant is before you. You must determine how far it is credible. The deep personal interest which every defendant has in the result of his case should be considered in determining the credibility of his testimony- You are instructed that interest creates a motive of false testimony, that the greater the interest, the greater is the temptation and that the interest of the defendant is of a character possessed by no other witness and is, therefore, a matter which may seriously affect the credence that should be given to his testimony. But you should consider his testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“instructions on the credibility of accomplices and criminal defendants, an issue on which the entire case turned, were not balanced”
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.