United States v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 907 · 1970
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably United States v. Caldwell (1974), United States v. Greene (1974)
68 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Powell v. Texas · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Kennedy v. Powell · Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania · Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, Inc.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court need not authorize an expenditure under [§ 3006A(e) ] for a mere `fishing expedition'....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e) Services other than counsel.— (1) Upon request. — Counsel for a person who is financially unable to obtain investigative, expert, or other services necessary for an adequate defense may request them in an ex parte application. Upon finding, after appropriate inquiry in an ex parte proceeding, that the services are necessary and that the person is financially unable to obtain them, the court . shall authorize counsel to obtain the services.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No standard can be arbitrarily articulated covering all circumstances under which an accused demonstrates his entitlement under the Act to services of experts to present an adequate defense.”
2 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.