United States v. Ehrlichman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Brogan v. United States (1998), United States v. Lambert (1974)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Bronston v. United States · United States v. Gilliland · United States v. Bramblett · Sims v. Gardner · Marzani 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he absence of a transcript would make application of [the Bronston literal-truth] test nearly impossible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the instant case, defendant Ehrlich-man was faced with the difficult task of arguing that his statements to the F.B.I. were literally true on the sole basis of the agent’s sketchy notes, which do not purport to be a verbatim record of either the questions or the answers at issue and which were not even shown to him until shortly before trial.”
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.