United States v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 1141 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2008
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 6002 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Rogers v. United States · United States v. Rogers · United States v. Lipkis · United States v. Garrett
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record demonstrates, that [defendant’s] statements before the grand jury were totally exculpatory with respect to the conspiracy charge, and that the government’s attacks on his credibility did not elicit any testimony implicating him in the conspiracy; for the most part, these at tacks merely led to further unimpeaehed denials by [defendant] of any knowledge or involvement in the scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for example, where the witness' immunized testimony is relatively brief, or where events before or after the witness testifies are undeniably the source for the evidence presented to the [indicting] grand jury.”
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.