Washington v. Clemmer’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.2d 725 · 1964
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1993
15 federal appellate · 4 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 Wood v. United States · Harling v. United States · Stevan v. Union Trust Co. of District of Columbia · Greenwell 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]ikely to be called on this basis, in addition to alibi witneses, are the complainant and other material witnesses named in the complaint who for some reason have not been called by the Government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. Sirica · Coleman v. Burnett““(a) Appearance before the Commissioner. “An officer making an arrest under a warrant issued upon a complaint or any person making an arrest without a warrant shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before the nearest available commissioner or before any other nearby officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the United States. When a person arrested without a warrant is brought before a commissioner or other officer, a complaint shall be filed forthwith. * S{C }}{ “(c) Preliminary Examination. “The defendant shall not be called upon to plead. If the defendant waives preliminary examination, the commissioner shall forthwith hold him to answer in the district court. If the defendant does not waive examination, the commissioner shall hear the evidence within a reasonable time. The defendant may cross-examine witnesses against him and may introduce evidence in his own behalf. If from the evidence it appears to the commissioner that there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the defendant has committed it, the commissioner shall forthwith hold him to answer in the district court; otherwise the commissioner shall discharge him. The commissioner shall admit the defendant to bail as provided in these rules. After concluding the proceeding the commissioner shall transmit forthwith to the clerk of the district court all papers in the proceeding and any bail taken by him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crump v. Anderson“Other cases must depend on their own facts and on the applicable law, which in the future will include the panel’s decisions in this case. And these decisions, not any commentary filed in connection with the denial of an application for rehearing en banc, mark the extent of our holding herein. [Washington v. Clemmer, 119 U.S.App.D.C. 226 , 229 n.4, 339 F.2d 725 , 728 n.4 (1964).]”
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.