United States v. Derrick’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 1 · 1975
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Roberts v. United States (1980), United States v. Frost (1990)
28 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Wiley · Yates v. United States · Aday v. United States · Baker 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“almost inevitably * * * affect the judge's consideration of what penalty appears most appropriate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'no matter how overwhelming the evidence of [defendant's] guilt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is difficult to urge that trial courts express themselves freely upon the record when it can be shown that in doing so, they subject themselves to greater risk of reversal or remand. The proper answer, we believe, lies in the understanding of the respective roles of the trial bench and the appellate court in the judicial system and in understanding that the ends of justice are best and necessarily served when each performs its task openly and honestly, even at the risk of exposing error."”
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.