Tate v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 377 · 1960
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 11 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Brown v. United States (1964), United States v. Bell (1974)
70 federal appellate · 11 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Weeks v. United States · Opper v. United States · Mallory v. United States · Walder v. United States · Irvine v. People of State of California
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.
“[The defendant] “must be free to deny all the elements of the case against him without thereby giving leave to the Government to introduce by way of rebuttal evidence illegally secured by it, and therefore not available for its case in chief.” * * On the other hand a defendant cannot “turn the illegal method by which evidence in the Government’s possession was obtained to his own advantage, and provide himself with a shield against contradiction of his untruths. * * * [T]here is hardly justification for letting the defendant affirmatively resort to perjurious testimony in reliance on the Government’s disability to challenge his credibility.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the theory that judicial suppression of truth has a beneficial effect on the administration of justice is unproved and perhaps unprovable.”
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.