United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 669 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Burks v. United States · Opper v. United States · United States v. Burgos
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is beyond dispute that a criminal defendant's conviction cannot rest entirely on an uncorroborated extrajudicial confession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 488-89 (1963). This”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient to find guilt 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.