United States v. Van Orsdell’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1323 · 1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1998
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 371
Relies on Simuel v. United States · Board of Education v. Mapp · Ruiz v. District of Columbia Court of General Sessions · United States v. Coke · United States v. Soles
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court has on numerous occasions upheld district courts' refusals to compel identification of informers.”
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.