United States v. Viera’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1113 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Bieganowski (2002), United States v. Hooks (1988)
15 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Webb v. Texas · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · Bartone 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor is always entitled to attempt to avert perjury and to punish criminal conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o showing had been made that a prospective witness was intimidated or that he refused to testify”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I felt that the Government's attorney had an ethical duty to advise defense counsel that it was possible that if the father was called as a witness and provided incriminating evidence against himself, or perjury [sic], that I would take the matter to the next setting [sic] Grand Jury, the following week, and present the matter to them for their consideration and that he could be indicted. This information was not intended as a 'threat' but communicated in good faith with honorable motives.”
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.