United States v. Van Drunen’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 1393 · 1974
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Franklin (1990), Raymond J. Ryan and Helen Ryan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1977)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 Edelman v. Jordan · Ham v. South Carolina · United States v. Kahn · Aldridge v. United States · Hawkins 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not justify assuring a criminal that he or she could enlist the aid of a spouse in a criminal enterprise without fear that ... the criminal was creating another potential witness,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The policy reasons for requiring trial errors to be brought to the attention of the trial judge are never stronger than when the error is a completely unintentional slip of the tongue.' The misstatement by the trial court would have been easily curable....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“limits the privilege to those cases where it makes most sense, namely, where a spouse who is neither a victim nor a participant observes evidence of the other spouses's [sic] crime.”
2 later decisions 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.