United States v. Bednar’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 236 · 1985
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1994), United States v. Jones (1994)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Whitten v. United States · United States v. Ward · United States v. Rocco · United States v. Ventling
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'from which the court may infer diligence on the part of the movant.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he grant or denial of a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence is within the broad discretion of the trial court, and the trial court's decision will not be reversed absent a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence may be decided ordinarily upon affidavits without a hearing.”
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.