United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 56 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably United States v. Bright (1980), United States v. Becker (1978)
19 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. § 545 · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Cruz v. Hauck · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Portela 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.”
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.