United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 552 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2014
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Marshall 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he manifest purpose of requiring that the inquiry be ex parte is to insure that the defendant will not have to make a premature disclosure of his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he ex parte requirement could hardly be expressed in clearer language.”
1 later decision 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.