United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.2d 697 · 1961
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison (1966), United States v. Figueroa (1987)
21 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Mallory v. United States · Green v. United States · United States v. French · United States v. Kniess
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sentence was based on the plea and not on the evidence. Mallory prohibits the use as evidence of confessions obtained during an illegal detention; it does not cast a cloud over pleas which are voluntarily entered by defendants whose treatment upon arrest may not meet the standards prescribed by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proper time to object to the failure to bring an accused before a [magistrate] without unnecessary delay is at trial when the government offers in evidence the fruits of a period of illegal detention”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.