United States v. Close’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.2d 841 · 1965
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably State v. Moore (1969), Commonwealth v. Bishop (1967)
27 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3500
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Mallory v. United States · Upshaw 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assuming, arguendo, that the initial arrest by the Roanoke police was illegal, we construe Wong Sun as holding, in effect, that not all oral statements are the fruit of the ‘poisonous tree’ simply because they would not have been made but for the illegal actions of the police. We think the Court in Wong San clearly indicates the view that a statement which is shown to have been freely and voluntarily made without coercion, either physical or psychological, may be thereby purged of any stigma of illegality and the statement is admissible.””
3 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.