United States v. Paquet’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 208 · 1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2020
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · McGautha v. California · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts are particularly reluctant to deem error harmless where, as here, the error precludes or impairs the presentation of an accused’s sole means of defense. Nor can the errors be considered harmless under the putative theory that by availing himself of the opportunity to elicit testimony from Christian concerning those aspects of the conversation most favorable to his defense, Paquet could have fully exposed his position to the jury. In my view, a surrogate explanation by Christian, a government witness, would be an inadequate substitute for Paquet’s own testimony, where Paquet’s own testimony was curtailed without explanation to the jury as to the reasons therefor while the government’s evidence on the same matter was permitted.”
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.