United States v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1344 · 1972
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 5 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Moran v. Burbine (1986), Brewer v. Williams (1977)
75 federal appellate · 5 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 29 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Giglio v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Santobello v. New York
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The work of the agents was trial preparation, pure and simple. In a civil context I would consider this behavior unethical and unfair. In a criminal context I regard it as such a departure from 'procedural regularity' as to violate the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)his . . . finding is entitled to substantial deference and we will not overturn it if it is substantially supported.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is a higher standard imposed to show waiver of the presense of counsel once counsel has been appointed.”
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.