United States v. Rasmussen’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 55 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Davis v. State (1994), United States v. Hamell (1991)
11 federal appellate · 9 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on United States v. Alvarez · United States v. Riley
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether there is any apparent motive for the out-of-court declarant to misrepresent the matter, (2) the general character of the speaker, (3) whether other people heard the out-of-court statement, (4) whether the statement was made spontaneously, (5) the timing of the declaration and the relationship between the speaker and the witness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the declarant must be unavailable to testify at trial, (2) the statement must tend to subject the declarant to criminal liability to such an extent that no reasonable person in his position would have made the statement unless he believed it to be true, and (3) the statement must be supported by corroborating circumstances clearly indicating the trustworthiness of the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trustworthiness of a statement against the declarant's penal interest is determined by analysis of two elements: ‘the probable veracity of the in-court witness, and the reliability of the out-of-court declarant.'”
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.