United States v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1126 · 1991
Citation profile
63 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Hill (1996), United States v. Prince (2000)
63 federal appellate ·
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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 1512
Relies on United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Belisle v. Anzivino · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Acosta-Cazares
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“told one bare-faced lie after another during his sentencing proceedings, and done so deliberately, to minimize ... the grievousness of the beating that this woman was subjected to.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“perjurious attempts to materially influence the proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committing, suborning, or attempting to suborn perjury.”
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.