United States v. Sherlock’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 1069 · 1989
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Belden (1992), United States v. Gonzalez-Sandoval (1990)
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 113
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Young
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prime consideration in assessing the prejudicial effect of a joint trial is whether the court may reasonably expect the jury to collate and appraise the independent evidence against each defendant in view of its volume and the court's limiting instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allowed the jury to adopt the defendant['s] theory of the case. It is not error to refuse a proposed instruction if the other instructions, when viewed in their entirety, cover that theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the delay, when balanced against the prosecution's reasons for it, offends those 'fundamental conceptions of justice which lie at the base of our civil and political institutions.'”
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.