Watson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 42 · 1956
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1979 · most notably Fuller v. United States (1967), Killough v. United States (1962)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Brown v. Allen · McNabb v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Time, Inc. v. Hill
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We would find the place crawling with attorneys telling him ‘you don’t have to talk to the police.’”
1 later decision 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.