United States v. Cheyenne’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 566 · 1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Smith v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. (2000), United States v. Rowley (1992)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 1111
Relies on Johnson v. Righetti · Soto v. United States · United States v. Bagnariol · Walgren v. United States · Osborne 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the advantages of close observation of the jurors and intimate familiarity with the issues at trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where ... the jury simply supplements the court's instructions of law ... it remains within the province of the judge to determine whether this conduct distorted the jury's understanding of the law to the prejudice of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not involve a jury's improper consideration of material bearing on the defendant or the acts alleged in the indictment.”
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.