United States v. Laurins’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 529 · 1988
Citation profile
162 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Hector Francisco Molina (1991), United States v. North (1990)
162 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 401 · 26 U.S.C. § 7602 · 26 U.S.C. § 7609
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Young · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Sloan v. Hicks
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge's participation justifies a new trial only if the record shows actual bias or leaves an abiding impression that the jury perceived an appearance of advocacy or partiality.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice or to preserve the integrity of the judicial process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant must have acted 'corruptly,' i.e., that the act must be done with the purpose of obstructing justice”
3 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.