United States v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 1164 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Baptista-Rodriguez (1994), Narey v. Dean (1994)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Jenkins v. Anderson · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc. · United States v. Kelly
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without this evidence of the gift-making custom, production of fishing lure molds on a U.S. Air Force base must have seemed to the jury like the oddball project of & renegade fisherman.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the substance of the evidence was made known to the court by offer or was apparent from the context within which the questions were asked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to alert the [trial] court and opposing counsel to the thrust of the excluded evidence, enabling them to take appropriate action,”
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.