United States v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.3d 1297 · 1999
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 13 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Diaz (1999), United States of America v. Willie James Richardson (1999)
117 federal appellate · 13 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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. § 1622 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 3521 (Witness Security Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 6003 · 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 516
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Santobello v. New York
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) directly or indirectly, gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any person, for or because of the testimony under oath or affirmation given or to be given by such person as a witness upon a trial .. . before any court ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an ingrained aspect of American legal culture”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“creates a conceptually messy legal regime for handling the case of the errant United States Attorney 'who offers something other than a concession normally granted by the government.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.