Spriggs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 283 · 1964
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Fuller v. United States (1967), Jones v. United States (1964)
53 federal appellate · 2 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 McNabb v. United States · Mallory v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · National Theatres Corp. v. Bertha Building Corp.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * time is but one factor. There always remains the question whether the time was utilized to obtain a confession by secret police interrogation after arrest and prior to a magistrate’s hearing. For a confession so obtained is not ‘spontaneous’ * * Supra at 251, 335 F.2d at 286.”
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.