United States v. Mackiewicz’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.2d 219 · 1968
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Beckwith v. United States (1976), United States v. Dickerson (1969)
58 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Boyd v. United States · United States v. Powell · Stoner v. California
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are one step removed from actual testimony. Therefore, there is no chance that we might be repulsed by a spouse actually testifying against his mate.... Nor is there a chance that marital frictions will be aggravated ..., for there is the convenient buffer of the third person actually making the remarks.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The basic reason the law has refused to pit wife against husband or husband against wife in a trial where life or liberty is at stake was a belief that such a policy was necessary to foster family peace, not only for the benefit of husband, wife and children, but for the benefit of the public as well. 358 U.S. at 77 , 79 S.Ct. at 138 .”
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.