Weed v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.2d 827 · 1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably United States v. Colbert (1973), William C. Drummond v. United States of America, Alphonse Vincent Castaldi v. United States (1965)
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Massiah v. United States · Huggins v. Raines · American Tobacco Co. v. Green · Peterbilt-Southern Sales, Inc. v. Pacific Car & Foundry Co. · Villano 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[E]very reasonable presumption is against an accused’s waiver of his constitutional rights, particularly when he is in custody, and the consent must be ‘specific,’ ‘unequivocal,’ and ‘freely and intelligently given.’ * * * Particular words of consent must always be weighed in light of the atmosphere and totality of circumstances in which they are spoken in order to determine the intent and voluntariness of the words.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graves v. Beto“always be weighed in light of the atmosphere and totality of circumstances in which they are spoken in order to determine the intent and voluntariness of the words.”
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.