United States v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 1370 · 1996
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Fernandez (2004), Fraser v. Goodale (2003)
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Young · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Yagow 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although no single trial error examined in isolation is sufficiently prejudicial to warrant reversal, the cumulative effect of multiple errors [has] still prejudice[d] a defendant.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In those cases where the government's case is weak, a defendant is more likely to be prejudiced by the effect of cumulative errors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have affected the jury's discharge of its duty to judge the evidence fairly.”
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.