United States v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 435 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably United States v. Farrow (1999), United States v. Newcomb (1993)
21 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Feola · Jizmejian v. United States · Rust v. Johnson · Jones v. United States · United States v. Garner
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court commits reversible error in a criminal case when it fails to give an adequate presentation of a theory of defense.”
4 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.