Hoffa v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
150 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994 · most notably Weatherford v. Bursey (1977), Berger v. New York (1967)
150 federal appellate · 6 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Shotwell Manufacturing Company v. United States · Black v. United States · O'BRIEN v. United States · United States v. Shotwell Manufacturing Co.
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not accept the Solicitor General’s suggestion that such an inquiry should be confined to the conviction of Burris. We consider it more appropriate that each of these petitioners be provided an opportunity to establish, if he can, that the interception of this particular conversation, or of other conversations, vitiated in some manner his conviction. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In such proceedings, the District Court will confine the evidence presented by both sides to that which is material to questions of the content of this and any other electronically eavesdropped conversations, and of the relevance of any such conversations to petitioners' subsequent convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(u)nlike the situations in Black . . . and O'Brien . . . there was apparently no direct intrusion here into attorney-client discussions.”
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.