Bland v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 6 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably United States v. Mahone (1976), United States v. Taylor (1977)
112 federal appellate · 6 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gault · Kent v. United States · Berra v. United States · United States v. Bland
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “child” means an individual who is under 18 years of age, except that the term “child” does not include an individual who is sixteen years of age or older and— (A) charged by the United States attorney with (i) murder, forcible rape, burglary in the first degree, robbery while armed, or assault with intent to commit any such offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.