United States v. Rojas-Contreras’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
283 federal appellate · 15 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 432 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Henderson v. United States (1986), United States v. Taylor (1988)
283 federal appellate · 15 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sloan v. Hicks · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Mueller v. Allen
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 432 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless the defendant consents in writing to the contrary, the trial shall not commence less than thirty days from the date on which the defendant first appears through counsel or expressly waives counsel and elects to proceed pro se.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case in which a plea of not guilty is entered, the trial of a defendant charged in an information or indictment with the commission of an offense shall commence within seventy days from the filing date (and making public) of the information or indictment, or from the date the defendant has appeared before a judicial officer of the court in which such charge is pending, whichever date last occurs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'ends of justice served by taking such action outweigh the best interest of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial.'”
3 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.