Leavitt v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 992 · 1972
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Cepulonis (1976), 640 So. 2d 22 - Kennedy v. State (1993)
35 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · North Carolina v. Alford · Townsend v. Sain · Brown v. Allen · Bumper v. North Carolina
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The application of that principle to consent to search is particularly apt. A defendant may believe that search is ultimately inevitable whether he consents or not. In such circumstances a suspect might well feel he is better off to consent than to oppose.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . [T]he federal court is bound by the state court's finding of historical facts unless the petitioner offers convincing evidence that they are erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[blowing to events, even if one is not happy about them, is not the same thing as being coerced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.