Trammel v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
634 federal appellate · 260 district · 718 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,440 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Upjohn Company v. United States (1981), Georgia v. Randolph (2006)
634 federal appellate · 260 district · 718 state decisions — followed in 43 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. Trammel (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Elkins v. United States · Sosna v. Iowa
Cited together with United States v. Nixon · Upjohn Company v. United States · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · United States v. Bryan · Elkins 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 2,440 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests on the need for the advocate and counselor to know all that relates to the client's reasons for seeking representation if the professional mission is to be carried out.”
192 later decisions quote this exact passage“prevents the Government from enlisting one spouse to give information concerning the other or to aid in the other's apprehension. It is only the spouse's testimony in the courtroom that is prohibited.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“confidential marital communications privilege”
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.