United States v. Mazzilli’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.2d 384 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Rosa (1993), United States v. Mickens (1991)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2315 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on United States v. Ditommaso · United States v. Pisani · United States v. Richter · United States v. Nazzaro · United States v. Victoria
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.
“This failure [to maintain an appearance of impartiality] was especially significant where so much hinged on the jury’s assessment of the defendant’s credibility. We have explained that “a jury’s impression that the court disbelieves [defendant’s] testimony surely affects its deliberations. The jury cannot be regarded as having freely come to its own conclusions about the defendant’s credibility when the court has already indicated, directly or indirectly, that it disbelieves his testimony.””
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.