Standefer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
546 federal appellate · 75 district · 441 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,421 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Powell (1984), California v. Beheler (1983)
546 federal appellate · 75 district · 441 state decisions — followed in 38 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. Standefer (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rakas v. Illinois · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Ashe v. Swenson · Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States
Cited together with Ashe v. Swenson · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Powell · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,421 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the important federal interest in the enforcement of criminal law.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage“no significant harm flows from enforcing a rule that affords a litigant only one full and fair opportunity to litigate an issue, and there is no sound reason for burdening the courts with repetitive litigation.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinkney v. Keane · Bies v. Bagley“The estoppel doctrine ... is premised upon an underlying confidence that the result achieved in the initial litigation was substantially correct. In the absence of appellate review, or of similar procedures, such confidence is often unwarranted.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.