United States v. Span’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 573 · 1992
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Baker (1993), Arpin v. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency (2001)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Graham v. Connor · Tennessee v. Garner · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Raphan 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because it involved human intervention. Moreover, the evidence did not show that all meat that was not salvaged at the time required by state law was inaccessible. Because the defenses were not supported by law or by the evidence presented, we find no plain error in the district court's failure to instruct on the definition of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“offered no such instruction, and ... did not rely on this theory of defense at trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allow[ed] the government to defeat an excessive force theory of defense merely by proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew that the person that [the defendant] allegedly assaulted was a federal law enforcement officer.”
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.