United States v. Slade’s Empirical Analysis
980 F.2d 27 · 1992
Citation profile
186 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), Martinez v. Colon (1995)
186 federal appellate · 11 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 42 U.S.C. § 6928
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Zannino · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Sisson v. Ruby · Gozlon-Peretz 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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a bedrock rule that when a party has not presented an argument to the district court, she may not unveil it in the court of appeals.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] party is not at liberty to articulate specific arguments for the first time on appeal simply because the general issue was before the district court.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]assing allusions are not adequate to preserve an argument”
4 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.