United States v. Dicker’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 1103 · 1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp. (1993), United States v. Gibbs (1999)
36 federal appellate · 2 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 22 U.S.C. § 2778
Relies on Bates v. State Bar · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Davis v. Alaska · Padilla-Martinez 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he interpretation of clear statements is not permissible, and is barred by the helpfulness requirement of ... Fed.R.Evid. 701.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although courts have construed the helpfulness requirement of Fed. R. Evid. 701 and 702 to allow the interpretation by a witness of coded or `code-like' conversations, they have held that the interpretation of clear conversations is not helpful to the jury, and thus is not admissible under either rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Lay witnesses are normally not permitted to testify about their subjective interpretations or conclusions as to what has been said.” Although harmless error, the witness's testimony should not have been admitted because the witness's”
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.