United States v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 731 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2024
15 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · Pelaes v. United States · Cruz v. Hauck · Lawrence v. United States · United States v. Johnson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A United States district attorney carries a double burden. He owes an obligation to the government, just as any attorney owes an obligation to his client, to conduct his case zealously. But he must remember also that he is the representative of a government dedicated to fairness and equal justice to all and, in this respect, he owes a heavy obligation to the accused. Such representation imposes an overriding obligation of fairness so important that Anglo-American criminal law rests on the foundation: - better the guilty escape than the innocent suffer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the fact that Eason Sr. had been convicted. The government deliberately introduced Eason, Sr's conviction. 68 Id. at 734. The court reversed. It”
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.