United States v. DeVaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2004
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1385 · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 44 U.S.C. § 1501 · 44 U.S.C. § 1505 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States v. Calandra · Alderman v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Sullivan 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effective only against Federal agencies or persons in their capacity as officers, agents, or employees thereof.”
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.