United States v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 269 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2013
11 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on Duren v. Missouri · Roberts v. Louisiana · Barber v. Ponte · United States v. Kelley · Anaya v. Hansen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no doubt that a jury could ... [have found] the punch to [the victim], standing by itself, enough to support ... conviction[ ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a prima facie violation of the sixth amendment fair cross-section requirement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.