United States v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 409 · 1973
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Ruggiero (1984), United States v. Torres (1988)
23 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3503
Relies on Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · United States v. Louisiana · Moore v. United States · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Yumich v. City of Chicago
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In computing the time within which the government should be ready for trial . the following periods should be excluded: . (h) Other periods of delay occasioned by exceptional circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether facts present circumstances exceptional enough to merit an extension of time, the public interest in prompt adjudication must be balanced against competing interests”
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.