Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
630 federal appellate · 85 district · 695 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,857 later decisions (173 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Anders v. California (1967)
630 federal appellate · 85 district · 695 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Edgar I. Shott, Jr., Relator-Appellant v. Dan Tehan, Sheriff of Hamilton County (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Jackson v. Denno · Griffin v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois
Cited together with Linkletter v. Walker · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Stovall v. Denno · Griffin v. California · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera
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 1,857 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the clear danger of convicting the innocent.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court may in the interest of justice make the rule prospective . . . where the exigencies of the situation require such an application.”
9 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.