United States v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 40 · 1996
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Elder (1996), United States v. Chesney (1996)
59 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Lopez · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Scarborough 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecutor is expected to refrain from impugning, directly or by implication, the integrity or institutional role of defense counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once knowledge on the part of the aider and abettor is established, it does not take much to satisfy the facilitation element.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`diversion' that does not `pass the laugh test'”
3 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.