United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 1346 · 1986
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 14 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Paladino (2005), United States v. Boylan (1990)
111 federal appellate · 14 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · Holland v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · Opper 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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the benefit of all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rule 106 can adequately fulfill its function only by permitting the admission of some otherwise inadmissible evidence when the court finds in fairness that the proffered evidence should be considered contemporaneously. A contrary construction raises the specter of distorted and misleading trials, and creates difficulties for both litigants and the trial court.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“charges require presentation of the same evidence, testimony of the same witnesses and involve [three] defendants who are charged ... with participating in the same illegal acts.”
5 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.