United States v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
870 F.3d 584 · 2017
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (§ 112 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000)
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Delaware v. Fensterer · United States v. Gomez · United States v. Nelson · United States v. Stott
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that error is harmless depending upon factors such as the importance of the witness's testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of corroborating or contradictory evidence, and the overall strength of the prosecution's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowing, or in reckless disregard of the fact, that means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion ... or any combination of such means will be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial sex act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“once a trial court permits a defendant to expose a witness's motivation, it is of peripheral concern to the Sixth Amendment how much opportunity defense counsel gets to hammer that point home to the jury.”
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.