United States v. Whaley’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 963 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Straker (2015), Henness v. Bagley (2011)
9 federal appellate · 5 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Edwards v. Arizona · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Oregon v. Bradshaw
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n Edwards initiation occurs when, without influence by the authorities, the suspect shows a willingness and a desire to talk generally about his case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evinced a willingness and a desire for a generalized discussion about the investigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While we accept, unless clearly erroneous, the facts that the district court found, whether those facts together constitute an `initiation' under Edwards is a legal question we review de novo. "). III 8 * Van Hook contends that his confession to the murder of David Self should have been suppressed under Edwards. As guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the federal Constitution, "[n]o person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Van Hook v. Anderson
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.