United States v. Ely’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 455 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2016
8 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1623 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Pelaes v. United States · McGautha v. California · Lawrence v. United States · 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'severance is not mandatory * every time a defendant wishes to testify to one charge but to remain silent on another. If that were the law, a court would be divested of all control over the matter of severance and the choice would be entrusted to the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'important testimony to give concerning'”
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.