United States v. Matlock’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.3d 1313 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
9 federal appellate · 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wade v. United States · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · LaSalle Bank Lake View v. United States · United States v. Clary
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'inconsistency [under the federal rule] is not limited to diametrically opposed answers but may be found in evasive answers, inability to recall, silence, or changes of position.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Shaw · State v. Whittle
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.