United States v. Rahm’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 1405 · 1993
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), United States v. Morales (1997)
117 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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. § 472
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Washington v. Texas · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Palko v. State of Connecticut
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, a district court abuses its discretion when it bases its decision on an erroneous view of the law or a clearly erroneous assessment of the facts.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our 'proper subject' inquiry has generally focused upon whether the expert testimony improperly addresses matters within the understanding of the average juror.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f 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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.