United States v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1167 · 1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Argomaniz (1991), Carter v. United States (1996)
6 federal appellate · 3 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. § 6002 · 26 U.S.C. § 6531 · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7402 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · Maness v. Meyers · Mathis v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhe reasonableness of a claims apprehension [of criminal prosecution] should simply be assumed once incriminating potential is found, unless there are genuine questions about the government’s legal ability to prosecute. That is to say, once incriminating potential is found to exist, courts should not engage in raw speculation as to whether the government will actually prosecute and should only pursue that inquiry when there are real questions concerning the government’s ability to do so because of legal constraints such as statutes of limitation, double jeopardy, or immunity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““information which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence that could lead to a prosecution, as well as evidence which an individual reasonably believes could be used against him in a criminal prosecution.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“given the recognized potential that such investigations have for leading to criminal prosecutions.”
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.