United States v. Wick’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 61 · 1969
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 59 Ill. App. 3d 441 - People v. Bolden (1978), United States v. Anderson (1974)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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. § 472
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Harrington v. California · Bruno 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, the two statements, one by the witness and one by the government attorney, amidst the overwhelming evidence against the defendant including two positive identifications, could not have contributed to the jury’s verdict, and we do not think that he was prejudiced.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant has the absolute right not to testify, and the jury must not draw a presumption of guilt or any inference against the defendant because he did not testify.”
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.