Fletcher v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
332 F.2d 724 · 1964
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Douglas v. Alabama (1965), United States v. Roselli (1970)
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Namet v. United States · United States v. Dickerson
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ * * * have looked to the surrounding circumstances in each case, focusing primarily on two factors, each of which suggests a distinct ground of error.’ One of these grounds relates to prosecu-torial misconduct, and the other ‘seems to rest upon the conclusion that, in the circumstances of a given case, inferences from a witness’ refusal to answer added critical weight to the prosecution’s case in a form not subject to cross-examination, and thus unfairly prejudiced the defendant.’ [Footnotes omitted.]”
6 later decisions 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.