Read v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 830 · 1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1989
11 federal appellate · 8 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. § 751
Relies on Giles v. United States · Tucker v. United States · Nace v. United States · Nace 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person may still be in custody even though not under constant supervision by guards, so long as some restraint remains upon complete freedom.”
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.