Alston v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 72 · 1965
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Johnson v. State (1978), United States v. Halbert (1970)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Mallory v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Greenwell v. United States · Naples v. United States · Spriggs 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this literalness in the reading of Mallory (the argument that no question may be asked of the accused between arrest and arraignment) is an excessive exaltation of opinion over decision, and that, absent a further direct ad monition from the Supreme Court that there can be no questioning whatsoever, its earlier opinion in Mitchell * * * continues to have vitality and provides the warrant for the admissibility of so-called threshold confessions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was not, prior to his interrogation, informed of his right to remain silent or of the fact that such answers as he chose to give might be used against him”
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.