Dillingham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 6 district · 334 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 663 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Doggett v. United States (1992), United States v. Gouveia (1984)
228 federal appellate · 6 district · 334 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Palmer (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Smith v. Hooey
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 663 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either a formal indictment or information or else the actual restraints imposed by arrest and holding to answer a criminal charge.”
25 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.