United States v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 455 · 1985
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably United States v. Apodaca (1988), United States v. Campuzano (1990)
43 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Swain v. State of Alabama · Michel v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent a local rule of court or established local practice about how a jury will be selected and how peremptory strikes should be exercised ..., there is a duty on the part of the court to give clear, unambiguous instructions to counsel about the procedure to be followed____”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he practical effect of defendants' counsels' not unreasonable belief that the jury would be chosen largely or substantially from the top of the list was to frustrate the exercise of their peremptory strikes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may no longer be good law in the Ninth Circuit. See In re Osterhoudt, 722 F.2d 591, 593 (9th Cir.1983). Certainly its purported teaching has been rejected by other circuits.”
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.