United States v. Adi’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 404 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably United States v. Chambers (1991), Carriger v. Stewart (1997)
36 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Patterson v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Bronston v. United States · United States v. Johnson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]ecanting affidavits and witnesses are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) [t]he court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness was false[;] (b) [t]hat without [the false testimony] the jury might have reached a different conclusion [; and] (c) [t]hat the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not at liberty to shift upon the shoulders of another jury his own responsibility but [is] charged with the responsibility to seek the truth himself.”
2 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.