United States v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 892 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably United States v. Bright (1980), United States v. Brown (1991)
25 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2113
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Schmerber v. State of California · Holt v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Vaca v. Sipes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Supreme Court has long held that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination offers no protection against the compulsion to don an item of apparel worn by the person committing the offense in order to facilitate identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is a basic rule of evidence that witnesses need not assert that they are certain of their identification beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.