United States v. Buchbinder’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 910 · 1986
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably United States v. Sblendorio (1987), United States v. Napue (1987)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chambers v. Mississippi · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Anthony 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is evident that the government did not have sufficient time prior to trial to have the defendant examined by its own expert witnesses and to prepare psychiatric testimony of its own concerning the defendant’s condition to rebut the defense expert’s testimony if necessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the reasons that Congress enacted Rule 12.2(b) was to enable the government to prepare for cross-examination of the defendant’s expert witnesses and to present any rebuttal witnesses to counter the defense expert’s testimony. See Conference Committee Notes, H.R.94-414, 1983 amendment to Rule 12.2(b) (noting that lack of notice “would have meant that the government would not have been equipped to cross-examine the expert, that any expert called by the government would not have had an opportunity to hear the defense expert testify and that the government would not have had an opportunity to conduct the kind of investigation needed to acquire rebuttal testimony on defendant’s claim concerning his lack of mental capacity.”)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, the government cannot conduct its own investigation into the validity of the defense of lack of mental capacity and decide if it will present expert witnesses in rebuttal until such time as it has knowledge of the psychiatric and psychological evidence the defense intends to present____ It is evident that the government did not have sufficient time prior to trial to have the defendant examined by its own expert witnesses and to prepare psychiatric testimony of its own concerning the defendant’s condition to rebut the defense expert’s testimony if necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hartless v. State
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.