United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 876 · 1969
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1991
14 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Griffin v. California · Williams v. People of State of New York · Williams v. State of Oklahoma · Taylor 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without reaching a question not reached on this record, namely, may a sentencing judge consider whether a defendant has plead ‘Guilty’ or ‘Not Guilty’ in determining sentence, we hold that he may properly consider the fact that a defendant’s sworn testimony is inconsistent with the court’s finding (or the jury’s verdict) of guilty. Indeed, in some such instances the conclusion that the defendant has committed perjury may be inescapable, a circumstance a sentencing judge might well be censored [sic] for ignoring.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If Mr. Wallace had come in here and faced up to it and simply admitted to what in this Court’s mind was proven to practically a mathematical certainty, that ... in our judgment would have been a probation situation.””
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.