United States v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.2d 993 · 1973
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Decoster (1976), Maynard v. Meachum (1976)
63 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1361
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Frederick Wiseman v. Massachusetts · United States v. Calabro · Brown v. Craven
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a conflict of interest, a complete breakdown in communication or an irreconcilable conflict which leads to an apparently unjust verdiet'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to demand a different appointed lawyer except for good cause.”
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.