United States v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 140 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably United States v. Zannino (1990), United States v. McHan (1996)
21 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. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · Bourjaily v. United States · Wrenn v. McFadden
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at the time of its making [it is] ... so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability ... that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.”
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.