United States v. Wynn’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 1439 · 1988
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Briscoe (1990), United States v. Cromer (2004)
145 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1703 · 18 U.S.C. § 1709
Relies on Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Brown v. United States · Holmes 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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o preserve an issue for appellate review, a party must make a proper objection at trial that alerts the court and opposing party to the specific grounds for the objection.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A plain error is one that results in 'an actual miscarriage of justice.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither a general objection to the evidence nor a specific objection on other grounds will preserve the issue for review.”
4 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.