United States v. O'Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 21 · 1993
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Brandon (1994), United States v. Ross (1996)
59 federal appellate · 17 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
Relies on Richardson v. Marsh · Zafiro v. United States · Opper v. United States · Granito v. United States · Toussie 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a rule, persons who are indicted together should be tried together.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that '[e]ven where large amounts of testimony are irrelevant to one defendant, or where one defendant's involvement in an overall agreement is far less than the involvement of others,' the court of appeals must be 'reluctant to second guess severance denials.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here evidence featuring one defendant is independently admissible against a codefendant, the latter cannot convincingly complain of an improper spillover effect.”
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.