Waley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 804 · 1956
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2010
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Opper v. United States · Lyles & Lang Construction Co. v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Barrett v. Hunter · United States v. Davis · United States v. Swaggerty
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the United States our concept of justice that finds no man guilty until proven has led our state and federal courts generally to refuse conviction on testimony concerning confession of the accused not made by him at the trial of his case.... In our country the doubt persists that the zeal of the agencies of prosecution to protect the peace, the self-interest of the accomplice, the maliciousness of the enemy or the aberration or weakness of the accused under the strain of suspicion may tinge or warp the facts of the confession.’ “No such doubt persists as to a voluntary plea of guilty made with an understanding of the charge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. G.E.G. v. State
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.