United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 1431 · 1990
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Washington (1994), United States v. Olano (1995)
41 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 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. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Darden v. Wainwright · Huddleston v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Poland v. Arizona · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder Rule 404(b), any purpose for which bad-acts evidence is admitted is a proper purpose so long as the evidence is not offered solely to prove character.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bradley · State v. Brooks“'the broad prophylactic rule that a trial court must give an immediate though unrequested cautionary instruction' whenever it admits evidence pursuant to Rule 404(b); 'the burden ... to guard against any potential misuse of evidence,' ... should be borne by defense counsel, not by the trial court.”
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.