United States v. Hendrix’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 1233 · 1974
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006 · most notably United States v. Grayson (1978), Roberts v. United States (1980)
51 federal appellate · 26 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Gore v. United States · Difronzo 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Prior convictions may cause a heavier sentence, though the defendant has already "paid" for them. A general course of dissolute, irresponsible, shiftless, or dangerous behavior may be deemed to call for longer incarceration though none of its components are, strictly, "crimes."'"”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Without denying that the point has substance, we may say that it is not wholly evil to discourage defendants from taking the stand to lie.” (United States v. Hendrix (1974), 505 F.2d 1233, 1236 .)”
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.