United States v. Lacouture’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 1237 · 1974
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Beechum (1978), 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State (1984)
59 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Relies on Namet v. United States · De Luna v. United States · Bowles v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Montoya v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither side has the right to benefit from any inferences the jury may draw from the witness' assertion of the privilege alone or in conjunction with questions that have been put to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a claim of Fifth Amendment protection is likely to be regarded by the jury as high courtroom drama and a focus of ineradicable interest, when in fact its probative force is weak and it cannot be tested by cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trial court was within its discretion in excluding matter of such dubious probative value and high potential for prejudice.”); Gomez-Rojas, 507 F.2d at 1220 (”
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.