United States v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 1326 · 1973
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Fisher (1990), United States v. Pacente (1974)
18 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Patton v. United States · Beck v. United States · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · Nelson v. County of Los Angeles · United States v. Guerrero-Peralta
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any time before verdict the parties may stipulate in writing with the approval of the court that the jury shall consist of any number less than 12.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If anything, an oral stipulation entered into, under such circumstances, carries more inherent protection of the defendant’s basic rights than a written stipulation executed by the defendant out of court and out of the presence of the judge, where no record is made of the arguments or circumstances which were advanced to bring it about.””
2 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.