LaFrance v. Bohlinger’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 29 · 1974
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Wolery (1976), 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins (2000)
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · California v. Green
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [When] there is a substantial claim by the defendant that the impeaching statement offered by the Government was obtained by police threats and other blatant forms of physical and mental duress . . . the court has a duty to conduct its own inquiry and to exclude the statement if found to have been unconstitutionally coerced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`It is unthinkable that a statement obtained by torture or by other conduct belonging only in a police state should be admitted at the government's behest in order to bolster its case.... Yet methods offensive when used against an accused do not magically become any less so when exerted against a witness.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government would not violate Napue by offering a statement which it believes to be voluntary simply because a witness, in order to bolster a changed story, charges that he was intimidated by improper police tactics. But if the charge is stated under oath and a factual issue established, the court and the government may not simply brush it aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.