United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.2d 1464 · 1988
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 8 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1990), United States v. Hector Francisco Molina (1991)
179 federal appellate · 8 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 17 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Young · United States v. Lovasco · North Carolina v. Butler
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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'place[d] the prestige of the government behind the witness' through personal assurances of the witness's veracity, or ... suggest[ed] that 'information not presented to the jury supports the witness's testimony.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“their cumulative effect may nevertheless be so prejudicial to the appellants that reversal is warranted.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'only in those circumstances in which a miscarriage of justice would otherwise result.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.