Hoffa v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1,844 federal appellate · 239 district · 1,491 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,443 later decisions (109 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Katz v. United States (1967), United States v. Wade (1967)
1,844 federal appellate · 239 district · 1,491 state decisions — followed in 50 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 v. Hoffa (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Jones v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Massiah v. United States · Lopez v. United States · United States v. White
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 4,443 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it.”
197 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All evidence of a witness whose self-interest is shown from either benefits received, detriments suffered, threats or promises made, or any attitude of the witness which might tend to prompt testimony either favorable or unfavorable to the accused should be considered with caution and weighed with care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In performing its duty to prosecute crime the Government must take the witnesses as it finds them. They may be persons of good, bad, or doubtful credibility, but their testimony may be the only way to establish the facts, leaving it to the jury to determine their credibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Bara · Johnson v. Smith
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.