United States v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 548 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2017
18 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. § 1623 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Abney v. United States · Stack v. Boyle · United States v. Mechanik · United States v. MacDonald
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issues of fundamental fairness that implicate substantial rights protected by the due process clause....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere[ ] ... errors in the grand jury charging process”
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.