United States v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 756 · 1988
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Elder (1996), United States v. Mandell (1990)
40 federal appellate ·
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. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Griffith v. Kentucky · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Mathews v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · Harris v. McRae
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] government agent may, like any other witness, testify in the form of an opinion as to his understanding of a defendant's statement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fed.R.Evid. 608(b) specifically prohibits a party from introducing extrinsic evidence to prove specific instances of conduct of a witness for the purpose of attacking or supporting his credibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the record suggests that a trial court did not rely upon disputed information in fashioning a defendant's sentence, the trial court has substantially complied with the mandates of Rule 32(c)(3)(D) even though it failed to make any express finding or determination of the disputed fact.”
2 later decisions 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.