United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 388 · 1990
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Johnson (1993), Greyson v. Kellam (1991)
57 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Abney v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Oregon v. Kennedy
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) heard the opinions of the parties about the propriety of the mistrial, (2) considered the alternatives to a mistrial and chose[ ] the alternative least harmful to a defendant's rights, [and/or] (3) acted deliberately instead of abruptly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“criminal defendants have a right to have the jury first empaneled to try them reach a verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to help the prosecution, at a trial in which its case is going badly, by affording it another, more favorable opportunity to convict the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.