Lawson v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 653 · 1988
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Esparsen (1991), United States v. Parcels of Land (1990)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Brown v. United States · Anthony v. United States · United States v. Havens
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a 'positive invitation to mutilate the truth a party offers to tell.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Striking all of the testimony of the witness may be the only appropriate remedy when refusal to answer the questions of the cross-examiner frustrates the purpose of the process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“was clearly attempting to say just enough to exonerate [defendant] without implicating himself. In the process, he was trifling with the truth, as the prosecutor well knew, because [the witness] had been caught in the act of fleeing from the scene in the presence of the red Mercury automobile. The prosecutor was entitled to closely examine the witness in that area and thus to expose to the fact finder [the witness’] falsification. [The witness’] refusal to answer questions so relevant and pertinent left the trial judge with no alternative but to strike [the] entire testimony.”
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.