United States v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 516 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably United States v. Lender (1993), United States v. Willis (1996)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Glasser v. United States · Bounds v. Smith · New York v. Quarles · Rubin 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either (1) manifest the prosecutor's intention to call attention to the defendant's failure to testify, or (2) are such that the jury would naturally and necessarily take them as a comment on the defendant's failure to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Pro se defendants have a right of access to adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he was carrying the gun at the time of a specific transaction.”
1 later decision 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.