United States v. Rincon’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 1003 · 1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Anschuetz & Co. v. Mississippi River Bridge Authority · Utility Contractors, Inc. v. United States · Wrenn v. Capstone Medical Center · United States v. Amaral
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
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.