Caton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 367 · 1969
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably State v. Wolery (1976), Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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. § 2113
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Griffin 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant had been fully informed of his rights. The statement was not elicited through trickery, misrepresentation or coercion. It was not even the product of an interrogation. < -x- -x- * Volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the Fifth Amendment * * *.’ ” (Citation omitted.) ( 407 F.2d at 374 .)”
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.