United States v. Braxton’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 556 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably United States v. Koon (1994), Mahorney v. Wallman (1990)
17 federal appellate · 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Holland v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Taylor v. Illinois · Geders v. United States · Harris v. McRae
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The cases] show the discretion that a district judge has in ordering the evidence, and do not, therefore, require the government to put certain evidence in its case in chief absent an order from the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]dmission of cumulative evidence is not grounds for reversal absent a showing of prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.