United States v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2016
2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Koon v. United States · Bank of New York v. Continental Airlines, Inc. · United States v. Roe · United States v. Pullen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]ack of guidance as a youth and similar circumstances indicating a disadvantaged upbringing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“exceptionally cruel . . . psychological and emotional abuse”
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.