United States v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 1026 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Adipietro (1993), United States v. Escobar (1995)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · United States v. Shoulberg · United States v. Sabatino · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Sutera
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language in the Commentary required the judge to find in his favor. At that time Application Note 1 read: In applying this provision, suspect testimony and statements should be evaluated in a light most favorable to the defendant. The court, predictably, ruled that the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“since the adjustment applies to attempts to obstruct justice, it is not essential that the threat was communicated to [the Cl] if it reflected an attempt by Capps to threaten or intimidate her conspirators into obstructing the government’s investigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“false testimony or statements by the defendant . . . should be evaluated in a light most favorable to the defendant.”
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.