Waldron v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
219 F.2d 37 · 1955
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Lawn v. United States (1958), Duncan v. State (1965)
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on United States v. Jeffers · Byars v. United States · Lustig v. United States · Cogen v. United States · Judd 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear to us that a ruling on a motion to suppress evidence becomes a controlling rule in the case just as does a ruling made during a trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The basic purpose of the rule is to prevent, so far as possible, the delay and attendant confusion resulting from attacks during a trial on the admissibility of illegally seized evidence * * * ”,”
2 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.