Paz v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 740 · 1972
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Acosta v. United States (1973), United States v. Bagnariol (1981)
44 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Dennis v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · Giordano 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]efendants are entitled to a new trial unless it can be said that there is no reasonable possibility that the [unauthorized] books affected the verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the material was actually received, and if so how; (2) the length of time it was available to the jury; (3) the extent to which the juror discussed and considered it; (4) whether the material was introduced before a verdict was reached, and if so at what point in the deliberations; and (5) any other matters which may bear on the issue of the reasonable possibility of whether the extrinsic material affected the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“drug traffic, drug problems, and people involved in drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamilton
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.