United States v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 362 · 1972
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably In re Grand Jury Proceedings (1975), United States v. Hernandez (1978)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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. § 659
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Lego v. Twomey · Pea v. United States · Ralph V. Warden Maryland Penitentiary
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court feels that there is only one basic issue . . . and that that is admissibility. This ultimate determination involves the determination of several subsidiary issues . . . . The notion of “voluntariness” runs all through these . . [T]he proper analysis is that no statement can indeed be “voluntary” unless there is a finding of knowing and intelligent waiver. . . . The determination of all these issues therefore underlies a finding of “voluntariness” which in turn, is the key to “admissibility”.”
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.