United States v. McDevitt’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.2d 282 · 1964
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2012
1 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on Frye v. United States · Remington v. United States · Tyler v. United States · Commonwealth v. Jones · Marks 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant contends that his confession was the result of the polygraph test and therefore was inadmissible. * * * The present appeal, however, does not involve a case where the operator attempted to testify, as an expert, as to what was indicated by the polygraph test. Though the reported cases are few, it seems to be well established that the use of a lie detector in the process of interrogation does not render a subsequent confession involuntary or inadmissible. Tyler v. United States, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 2 , 193 F.2d 24 , cert. denied, 343 U.S. 908 , 72 S.Ct. 639 , 96 L.Ed. 1326 . * * * ” p. 284.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[polygraphs] record lines and variations on tape for interpretation by the operator. These lines and variations, or more specifically the interpretation of them, constitute the results of a lie detector test . . . . ” United States v. McDevitt, 6th Cir., 328 F.2d 282, 284 (1964).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whalen 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.