Butler v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 1103 · 1969
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Toto (1976), United States v. Bridwell (1978)
39 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2112
Relies on Wolfle v. United States · United States v. Kelly · United States v. Palumbo · Bostic v. United States · Coulston v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mere fact that a witness is an accomplice does not mean that he is an incompetent witness or that he can’t tell the truth, but it does mean that his testimony is to be weighed with great care and received with caution.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In federal courts the testimony of an accomplice need not be corroborated, but the court must instruct the jury as to the manner in which such testimony should be considered.””
2 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.