United States v. Chen’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 793 · 1991
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. McKenna (2003), United States v. Burke (2005)
26 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. § 1623
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · United States v. Bornstein · Domby v. United States · United States v. Washington
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the instructions fairly and adequately cover the issues presented, the judge's formulation of those instructions or choice of language is a matter of discretion.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well-established that a criminal defendant is entitled to have a jury instruction on any legal defense to the charge against him which has some foundation in the evidence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A perjury trap is created when the government calls a witness before the grand jury for the primary purpose of obtaining testimony from him in order to prosecute him later for perjury.”
3 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.